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What is a penetrance?

What is a penetrance? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power.
  2. (genetics) The proportion of individuals carrying a particular variation of a gene that also express an associated trait
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The penetrance of these phenotypes was background dependent.
Gorlin's syndrome is an autosomal-dominant disorder with complete penetrance and variable expression.
Red stripe appears as a diffuse stripe of pigment on the dorsum of larvae and pupae and is variable in expressivity and penetrance.
If scientists identify 100 individuals with the same mutation, and 75 of them have disease, the penetrance is 75 percent.
Because of reduced penetrance, individuals of different genotypes can have the same phenotype.
Clouston syndrome is an hidrotic form of ectodermal dysplasia, inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with high penetrance.

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