Pattern of inheritance that seems due to a dominant trait but, in fact, is due to the mating of a person who has a recessive disorder (with 2 copies of a gene causing the disease) with someone who is an asymtomatic carrier ( and has 1 copy of the same gene buut no symptoms). ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: kwā′zi-dom′i-nănt Definitions: 1. Denoting a trait in an inbred pedigree that exhibits quasidominance.
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Quasidominant: Pattern of inheritance that seems due to a dominant trait but is in fact due to the mating of a person who has a recessive disorder (with two copies of a gene causing the disease) with someone who is an asymptomatic carrier (with one copy of the same gene but no symptoms).
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quasidominance, quasidominant The property of a heritable recessive trait to appear as if its inheritance is autosomal or X-linked dominant because of the mating of affected individuals with unaffected heterozygous carriers; also known as, pseudodominance or pseudominant.
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