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Shiloh Winslow is deaf. In early childhood, she began having fainting spells, especially when she became excited. When she fainted while opening Christmas gifts, her parents took her to the hospital, where doctors said, again, that there wasn't a problem. As the spells continued, Shiloh became able to predict the attacks, telling her parents that her head hurt beforehand. Her parents took her to a neurologist, who checked Shiloh's heart and diagnosed long QT syndrome with deafness, a severe form of inherited heartbeat irregularity. Ten different genes can cause long QT syndrome. The doctor told them of a case from 1856: a young girl, called at school to face the headmaster for an infraction, became so agitated that she dropped dead. The parents were not surprised; they had lost two other children to great excitement. The Winslows visited a medical geneticist, who discovered that each parent had a mild heartbeat irregularity that did not produce symptoms. Shiloh's parents had normal hearing. Shiloh's younger brother Pax was also hearing-impaired and suffered night terrors, but had so far not fainted during the day. Like Shiloh, he had the full syndrome. Vivienne, still a baby, was also tested. She did not have either form of the family's illness; her heartbeat was normal. Today, Shiloh and Pax are treated with beta blocker drugs, and each has an implantable defibrillator to correct a potentially fatal heartbeat. Shiloh's diagnosis may have saved her brother's life.
Which of the following applies to the condition in this family?
genetic heterogeneity
pleiotropy
variable expressivity
incomplete dominance
v.a phenocopy
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