Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleA Heterozygote Expression of a 'Recessive' Gene?AuthorsFreire-Maia, N.AbstractAn individual affected with severe bone reductions of the upper limbs, apparently due to an autosomal recessive gene, had eight normal children and then a child with absence of the right thumb and the correspondent metacarpal. This is supposed to be the result of a mild expression of the postulated gene in heterozygous state. Copyright © 1975 S. Karger AG, BaselPublicationHuman Heredity, 1975, Vol 25, Issue 4, p302ISSN0001-5652Publication typeArticleDOI10.1159/000152739