As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual ...

Researchers assessed the role of recessive genetic variants in developmental disorders, suggesting reanalysis of genetic data could improve understanding and diagnosis of conditions for millions of ...

The purpose of this study is to describe recessive alleles in strictly dominant genes. Identifying recessive mutations in genes for which only dominant disease or risk alleles have been reported can ...

Some health problems are passed down through families. There are different ways this can happen. To have a child born with what’s called an “autosomal recessive disease” like sickle cell disease or ...

Sickle cell anemia is an inherited condition that follows an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern. Even if you don’t have sickle cell anemia, you could be a carrier of the gene for it. Sickle cell ...

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Much of what you look like comes from a combination of your parents’ DNA. Your hair’s texture and color are no exception. Genetic information that’s embedded in your body creates a formula for what ...

Researchers from Radboudumc, Department of Human Genetics, demonstrated something remarkable in a 2014 publication in Nature. Contrary to expectations, inherited variants in genes were rarely ...