Severity of a disease in a family

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Question: Explain how incomplete penetrance, variable expressivity, pleiotropy, and genetic heterogeneity can affect the severity of a disease in a family.

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Question: Explain how the molecular bases of the various forms of long QT syndrome make genetic heterogeneity very likely.

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