"Penetrance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The percent frequency with which a dominant or homozygous recessive gene or gene combination manifests itself in the phenotype of the carriers. (From Glossary of Genetics, 5th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D019683
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.420.655 G05.695.650
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Penetrance" by people in Profiles.
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Characteristics predicting reduced penetrance variants in the high-risk cancer predisposition gene TP53. HGG Adv. 2025 Oct 09; 6(4):100484.
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Recommendations for risk allele evidence curation, classification, and reporting from the ClinGen Low Penetrance/Risk Allele Working Group. Genet Med. 2024 03; 26(3):101036.
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Genetic modifiers of risk and age at onset in GBA associated Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia. Brain. 2020 01 01; 143(1):234-248.
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Utilization of multigene panels in hereditary cancer predisposition testing: analysis of more than 2,000 patients. Genet Med. 2014 Nov; 16(11):830-7.