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Human congenital diseases with mixed modes of inheritance have a shortage of recessive disease. A demographic scenario?
Annals of human genetics - 1 Nov 2011
Mitchison N Avrion, Bhattacharya Shomi, Tuddenham Edward G D
Abstract excerpt
An archive of congenital human diseases is presented, aiming to contain all those where recessive (biallelic) can be compared with X-linked and/or dominant (monoallelic) inheritance. A significant deficit of recessive inheritance is evident, both in disease inheritance and in contribution to inheritance per known disease gene. The deficit contrasts with expectation derived from the cell biology of mutation, and...
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