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A 50 years old patient comes to a physician worried about having a familial disease in their family associated with iron overload. The family history reveals that disease struck the family in all of previous 3 generations but none in the present generation. The physician reassures the patient that he doesnt have any chance to get the disease. What phenomenon physician had in his mind while giving counseling to the patient?
a) incomplete penetrance
b) variable expression
c) delayed age of onset
d) anticipation
e) locus heterogenecity
f) pleiotropy
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| guesttt
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A? Hemochromatosis is Autosomal recessive, it's incomplete penetrance of the gene.
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| mjl1717
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answer-a
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correct
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