Penetrance

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power.
  • n. The proportion of individuals carrying a particular variation of a gene that also express an associated trait
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power or quality.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as penetrancy.
    • Word Usage
    "This, the penetrance of the BRCA gene in these families was only presumed, not measured."
    Equivalent
    penetrancy   
    Cross Reference
    expressivity   
     
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