"Penetrance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The percent frequency with which a dominant or homozygous recessive gene or gene combination manifests itself in the phenotype of the carriers. (From Glossary of Genetics, 5th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D019683
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.420.655 G05.695.650
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Penetrance" by people in Profiles.
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Reduced penetrance in a large Caucasian pedigree with Stickler syndrome. Ophthalmic Genet. 2017 Jan-Feb; 38(1):43-50.
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Multiple mouse models of primary lymphedema exhibit distinct defects in lymphovenous valve development. Dev Biol. 2016 Jan 01; 409(1):218-233.
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Narrowing critical regions and determining penetrance for selected 18q- phenotypes. Am J Med Genet A. 2009 Jul; 149A(7):1421-30.
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Ectrodactyly with aplasia of long bones (OMIM; 119100) in a large inbred Arab family with an apparent autosomal dominant inheritance and reduced penetrance: clinical and genetic analysis. Am J Med Genet A. 2006 Jul 01; 140(13):1440-6.
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Expression and penetrance of the hereditary pancreatitis phenotype in monozygotic twins. Gut. 2001 Apr; 48(4):542-7.