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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Jonathan King wrote:
This is conjectured to be an autosomal dominant trait of variable
penetrance. In other words, if one of your parents has it, you are
likely but not certain to have it as well. There is an active discussion
in the literature about whether or not this suggests there is an
interaction between the genotype and some environmental stressor. More
bluntly, maybe you won't get the crooked pinky even if you have the
"bad" gene if the environment is especially conducive to not developing
that abnormality.
And sometimes the "enviroment" for one gene is the product of another
gene.
Mike
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