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codominance

Saturday 11 March 2006

Although gene expression is usually described as dominant or recessive, in some cases, both of the alleles of a gene pair may be fully expressed in the heterozygote-a condition called codominance. Histocompatibility and blood group antigens are good examples of codominant inheritance.