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variable penetrance and variable expressivity mean the same -right?

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As I understand:

Variable penetrance: genetic disease with phenotype (complete) or without phenotype (imcomplete phenotype). This means : "expressivity" or "no expressivity"

variable expressivity: same genetic disease with phenotypic (all people express phenotypically) but different appearance.


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