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The dominant findings of a recessive man: from Mendel's kid pea to kidney.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Jul 2024
Tory Kálmán
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The research of Mendel, born two centuries ago, still has many direct implications for our everyday clinical work. He introduced the terms "dominant" and "recessive" characters and determined their 3:1 ratio in the offspring of heterozygous "hybrid" plants. This distribution allowed calculation of the number of the phenotype-determining "elements," i.e., the alleles, and has been used ever since to prove the...
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