- quasidominant inheritance
- inheritance characterized by an apparently dominant pattern, but actually resulting from the mating of a carrier of a recessive gene with an individual homozygous for the recessive allele.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
quasidominant inheritance
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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… … Medical dictionary
quasidominance — Simulation of dominant inheritance of a recessive trait, e.g., a heterozygote mating with an affected homozygote resulting in the manifestation of the recessive trait generation after … Medical dictionary
