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recessive - Describing an allele whose effect with respect to a particular trait is not evident in heterozygotes. Opposite: dominant. [FAO]

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Donors Raise Money For Tot With Rare Kidney Disease  -  21 Aug 2007
WBAL,Andrew has Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease, a rare disease that Morrissey and her husband, Mike, each carry as a recessive gene.

FIVE THINGS: About color blindness  -  21 Aug 2007
Detroit Free Press,Color blindness is rare in women because it is a recessive female gene. A baby boy will be color-blind if his mother carries the gene; a baby girl will be

Today's White Rice Is Mutation Spread By Early Farmers  -  21 Aug 2007
DentalPlans.com,McCouch noted that due to the genetics of pericarp color in rice (white grain is recessive and maternally inherited), when white grains appear in the

On the wings of butterflies  -  Aug 17, 2007
Today's Zaman,Melek’s younger sister has the same (recessive) type of EB. Caring for both girls is a fulltime job which puts a huge strain on this rural family.

Commentary: Genetic research provides reason for hope  -  Aug 17, 2007
The Reporter,AT is a recessive genetic disease. AT children inherit one recessive AT gene from each parent. Because each parent carries just one of these genes,

11-Year-Old To Become Police Officer For Day  -  Aug 16, 2007
Local10.com,But Sabahi is afflicted with a terminal disease called Ataxia Telangiectasis -- a rare, recessive genetic disorder that occurs in one out of 100000 people

Book Review: Talking Hands - What Sign Language Reveals About the ...  -  Aug 11, 2007
Blogcritics.org,In Al Sayyid, Israel, the inhabiting tribe has a notable deaf population because the recessive allele of deafness is a little less recessive there.

In-breeding spells doom  -  Aug 1, 2007
Republic of Botswana,The dominant traits must always be stronger than the recessive ones. He said in a process of in-breeding, recessive traits gained strength against dominant

High-Lysine Corn Generated by RNAi  -  Aug 10, 2007
Checkbiotech.org (press release),Their study showed that unlike traditional breeding, wherein improved traits are often recessive and lack tissue specificity, RNAi offers a more useful

Tanyalee Davis: Little Do They Know  -  Aug 10, 2007
Chortle,This show is about her life, from her birth in 1970 when a recessive gene meant she was born with a rare form of dwarfism, up to now, when she is a happy

Rare lion for city zoo eyed  -  Aug 1, 2007
Attleboro Sun Chronicle,They are genetically identical to regular tawny-colored lions, except for the recessive gene that causes the white fur. White lions are preserved on

Caden, parents make it home for his first  -  Aug 9, 2007
Checkbiotech.org (press release),It's a disease that he happened to get because both of his parents have a certain recessive gene. They spent months looking for a bone marrow donor and were

Israel and JNF harmed by the mudslinging  -  Aug 19, 2007
Australian Jewish News,...opinion writers and those who take up positions of leadership within our community, which while mostly recessive, comes to the fore every so often.

Girl with progressively worsening vision  -  Aug 15, 2007
OSN SuperSite (subscription),The inheritance pattern of this dystrophy is overwhelmingly autosomal recessive, although a small but significant population is autosomal dominant.

Africa: The Human Race Started in Africa  -  Jul 30, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Mendel, the father of genetics, stated that Black genes were dominant and White genes were recessive and that a recessive cannot produce a dominant,

Gore writes what she knows, amusingly  -  Aug 19, 2007
Contra Costa Times,Recessive though they may be, they shine forth in the DNA of the Gores' middle daughter, Kristin, who made her funny bones as an editor of the Harvard

There's no rehabbing LA's deadly pit bulls  -  Aug 19, 2007
Los Angeles Daily News,In others, the gene is recessive and, in the right homes, these dogs can make excellent, loving pets. For dogs in the first category, no amount of training

"Invasion" makes you want to hurl  -  Aug 16, 2007
Seattle Times,..."Invasion of the Body Snatchers" — which includes the great 1978 remake and Abel Ferrara's respectable 1993 "Body Snatchers" — got the recessive gene.

Café Pita +  -  Aug 15, 2007
Houston Chronicle,Co-owner Omer ("It's like Homer, without the 'h', " he informed us cheerfully) is one of those blessed souls who has inherited the recessive gene for

The good life within reach  -  Aug 18, 2007
Winston-Salem Journal,Her condition, diastrophic dysplasia, was caused by a spontaneous mutation of a recessive gene, which both her parents carry. Until she was born,

Grad returns to lead St. Teresa's Academy  -  Aug 17, 2007
The Catholic Key,Bone said that "a recessive gene for marketing and development" runs in her family. "Out of the eight of us, four are in sales," she said.

Full Text  -  Aug 2, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)Inborn errors of immunity were initially thought to be confined to a few rare, familial, monogenic, recessive traits impairing the development or function

White rice is the result of an early mutation  -  Aug 17, 2007
Food Digital,McCouch notes that due to the genetics of pericarp color in rice (white grain is recessive and maternally inherited), when white grains appear in the

The Thalassemia Saga  -  Aug 16, 2007
Express Healthcare Management,Thalassemia, in the language of genetics, is an ‘autosomal recessive disease’. This genetic defect affects the hemoglobin present in the red blood cells of

British redheads are targets of taunts, teases  -  Aug 8, 2007
Houston Chronicle,Because the gene that causes red hair is recessive, researchers say it is diluted whenever carriers have a baby with someone who has the stronger brown-hair

Cattle Preconditioning Forum: How Are You Dehorning?  -  Aug 16, 2007
CattleNetwork.com,In cattle, horns are inherited as an autosomal recessive gene, polledness being dominant. In one breeding season, a producer can breed a herd of horned cows

Wrongful Birth Suit Gets $21 Million Settlement?  -  Jul 25, 2007
American Chronicle,SLO/RSH Syndrome is inherited as an autosomal recessive Mendelian disorder, like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease. In autosomal recessive diseases,

Book Review "Family Tree"  -  Aug 15, 2007
The Paper,When Dana finds her father and meets him for the first time, the mystery of the recessive genes that dominate Lizzie's appearance only deepens.

Readers respond with their white-tailed squirrel sightings  -  Aug 14, 2007
MidWeek,I figured it must be a recessive gene that was working its way out of the pool as new squirrels moved in due to the construction work around the park.

Stop and Smell the Roses?  -  Aug 14, 2007
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription),And while scent is a recessive gene in roses, that’s not to say there aren’t beautiful roses that are also fragrant. For elegance and fragrance,

Make a Wish sends Wilmington girl to Disney World  -  Aug 13, 2007
WWAY NewsChannel 3,Kelly Read said, "We're both carriers of a recessive gene and so the odds are just slim to none." One in 250000 to be exact, and there is no known way of

Making a wish come true  -  Aug 13, 2007
Wilmington Morning Star,Before she was born, neither Read, a teacher's assistant, nor her husband, Mitch, knew that they were carriers of the recessive genes that cause the

Treatment of Compulsive Hoarding  -  Aug 10, 2007
Focus (subscription)The hoarding/ saving symptom factor shows an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern and has been associated with genetic markers on chromosomes 4, 5,

‘Classic Wines of France’- Paintings of Great Vintages by Brian ...  -  Aug 9, 2007
Response Source (press release),The bottles, usually set against recessive shadow, are caught in a pool of light, a bloom of dust delineating the contour of the object on its journey from

A 'king of cats': Rare male tortoiseshell cat up for adoption at ...  -  Aug 8, 2007
North County Times,The large majority of tortoiseshell cats are female because the unusual coloring requires the recessive trait from two X-chromosomes.

Pregnancy in a Patient with Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria  -  Aug 8, 2007
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),To the Editor: Congenital erythropoietic porphyria, a rare autosomal recessive disorder of heme biosynthesis, results from markedly deficient

Paladin Expands Distribution Agreement with Shire HGT to Include ...  -  Aug 8, 2007
Earthtimes.orgHunter syndrome is an X-linked recessive disorder caused by a deficiency or absence of iduronate-2-sulfatase (I2S). Its absence results in a deleterious

Vitamin D 1-Hydroxylase Gene Mutations in Patients with 1 ...  -  Aug 6, 2007
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism,Context: Vitamin D 1-hydroxylase deficiency, also known as vitamin D-dependent rickets type 1, is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by the early

The First Art Newspaper on the Net  -  Aug 5, 2007
Art DailyVisitors can recreate the steps of Mendel’s experiment; identify dominant and recessive traits on themselves; look through a microscope to compare what

Despite quirky trait, fainting goats make gentle, popular pets  -  Aug 4, 2007
Kansas.com,The origin of the fainting goats is unknown, and there is speculation they might carry a recessive gene that causes myotonia congenita, a condition that

Buried national treasures  -  Aug 4, 2007
Washington Times,...musicals might suggest that this sprawling building complex has razzle-dazzle, but instead, the architecture is recessive, almost excessively so.

Change is just beginning says candidate Cristina Kirchner  -  Aug 3, 2007
MercoPress,We’ve grown almost 50% in four year and a half and we climbed out of a recessive process with no investments in electrical infrastructure�,

Birdies for Better Bones  -  Aug 2, 2007
Checkbiotech.org (press release),While the disorder is genetic, it can occur in three different ways, Shapiro said, through a dominant gene, where the parents have a milder case, recessive

Santhera and Takeda Extend European Marketing Collaboration for ...  -  Aug 2, 2007
PipelineReview.com (press release),It is a genetic, degenerative disease that is inherited in an X-linked recessive mode. DMD affects approximately 30000 patients in the USA, EU,

Tracking British Columbia's Spirit Bear, the white bear that's ...  -  Aug 2, 2007
Miami Herald,Studies have determined the color phase is the product of a unique double-recessive gene in both parents. The genetic combination is found particularly on

Quick, Lassie, Go Help Timmy  -  Aug 1, 2007
TheStranger.com,If both parents have the recessive gene, there is a one-in-four chance their children will be born with the disease. The second time Schwartz got pregnant,

Star students shine for minister  -  Aug 1, 2007
Dublin People,One bright little boy explained, with ease, dominant and recessive genes giving the minister an example in which she married a man with brown eyes.

Gene Mutations in Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes  -  Aug 1, 2007
AAP Grand Rounds (subscription),...defects in resynthesis of ACh and kinetics of AChR, and most recently, a form associated with recessive mutations of the DOK7 gene.

Running for Cystic Fibrosis  -  Aug 1, 2007
Coshocton Tribune,CF occurs when both parents are carriers of a recessive CF gene, and Jolivette said over 10 million Americans unknowingly carry this gene.

Neurodegenerative Mouse  -  Jul 31, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),The scientists also identified pathogenic mutations of the human form of the gene, also called Figure 4, in 4 unrelated patients with autosomal recessive




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