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Genetics of acheiropodia (“the handless and footless families of Brazil”)
Author(s) -
FreireMaia Ademar
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
clinical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.543
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1399-0004
pISSN - 0009-9163
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1975.tb00304.x
Subject(s) - expressivity , genetics , biology , variation (astronomy) , evolutionary biology , physics , astrophysics
The acheiropodia data are shown to be consistent with the hypothesis of a fully penetrant gene in the homozygous state. The expressivity is shown to be generally constant, with some minor variation between individuals as well as between the two sides of the same affected person.