“Hair color is a bit more complex than dominant and recessive and is related to variants in the MC1R gene,” says Dr. Kaplan. “There are nine variants most commonly described in this gene.

or ‘salty liquorice,’ the cats have hair strands that start out black, and become white the further they grow from the follicle. It turns out the unique color is caused by a recessive genetic ...

Therefore, females with an X chromosome-linked recessive disease inherit one copy of the mutant gene from an affected father and the second copy of the mutant gene from their mother, who is most ...

However, half the possible offspring will be homozygous, FF, and be unaffected, and half will be heterozygous, Ff and carry the recessive allele. The ratio of FF to Ff is 1:1 or 50%. This genetic ...

Abeona Therapeutics has received FDA approval for ZEVASKYN, the first autologous cell-based gene therapy for treating wounds in patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), a ...