Human Congenital Diseases with Mixed Modes of Inheritance Have a Shortage of Recessive Disease. A Demographic Scenario?

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 688-693

  Mitchison, N Avrion ^a   Bhattacharya, Shomi ^a   Tuddenham, Edward G D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demography; Dominant; Inheritance; Recessive; Selection; X linked

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CYTOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

DEMOGRAPHY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80053572887     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2011.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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