recessive

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This has enriched rare functional variation, including recessive disorders and homozygous loss-of-function mutations, or “human knockouts.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

In contrast, conditions tied to metabolic genes, including PEDS1, are more often recessive.

From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026

Pattinson has the more recessive role but his performance is so subtle and clever that it’s worth watching closely.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

The researchers weren't just looking at whether a child had been diagnosed with a specific recessive disorder.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025

For instance, all cultivated peas share the same recessive gene that prevents ripe pods of cultivated peas from spontaneously popping open and spilling their peas, as wild pea pods do.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond