Why do healthy carriers of autosomal recessive conditions not show symptoms, while autosomal dominant conditions can appear with just one parent?
Why is it that thosye with healthy carrier in autosomal recessive can not manifest signs and symptoms of the condition but in the case of autosomal dominant, you can get the condition, regardless of being inherited from one parent
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- No, just curiousHave you had any genetic testing done?:
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