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Genetics Flashcards

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What is penetrance?

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how likely you are to have the disease if you have the genetic mutation

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What is mendelian inheritance?

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a disease that has high penetrance

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What is multifactorial inheritance

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lots of little variations contribute to the disease in the same way as environmental risk factors

The variants tend to have low penetrance

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