"Penetrance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The percent frequency with which a dominant or homozygous recessive gene or gene combination manifests itself in the phenotype of the carriers. (From Glossary of Genetics, 5th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D019683
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.420.655 G05.695.650
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Penetrance" by people in Profiles.
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Recent origin and spread of a common Lithuanian mutation, G197del LDLR, causing familial hypercholesterolemia: positive selection is not always necessary to account for disease incidence among Ashkenazi Jews. Am J Hum Genet. 2001 May; 68(5):1172-88.