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Antenatal and postnatal screeningSingle gene disorders - Incomplete dominance

Antenatal and postnatal screening are used to protect the health of mothers and babies. Antenatal techniques include ultrasound imaging, dating scans, blood and urine tests and diagnostic testing, such as amniocentesis, CVS and genetic screening. Postnatal screening can involve diagnostic testing such as PKU.

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Single gene disorders - Incomplete dominance

In some instances of inheritance, the allele may not fully express itself. This is known as incomplete dominance.

Both incomplete dominance alleles are shown with upper case letters in genetic diagrams, but the letters used are different. For example, feather colour in hens may be white, black or speckled (it has both white feathers and black feathers). The alleles can be shown as W for white and B for black.

There are three possible : WW, BB and BW.

There are also three possible phenotypes: WW = white, BB = black, and BW = speckled.

Codominance in chickens. Pheontypes of the three are white, black and speckled. The genotypes are WW, BB, and BW.
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incomplete dominance in chickens