Quasidominant

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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Denoting a trait in an inbred pedigree that exhibits quasidominance.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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