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• n  an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
• a  of or pertaining to a recession
• a  (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical

• Gregor Mendel's discovery of genetically transmitted dominant and recessive traits seemed to many the key that would unlock the mysteries of human heredity.
• Big families in which cousins sometimes marry cousins are ideal for studying recessive genes.
• He told them that prevention would involve barring marriages between people with the recessive gene, or asking those couples to forgo children.

• recessive allele
• recessionary

• dominant

News & Articles

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• This Week in Genome Research
  Using array comparative genomic hybridization data for 21,470 individuals, Baylor College of Medicine's James Lupski and colleagues considered the frequency with which deletions or other disruptive copy number variants appear in genes known for roles in recessive disease . As they report in Genome Research , the investigators unearthed more than 3,200 instances in which deletions affected one ...
  June 12, 2013 - GenomeWeb News