jubears09 t1_ja9m58q wrote
Reply to comment by lituranga in Is there a genetic disease where the heterozygote has more severe disease symptoms than the homozygote? by Altranite-
Those are exceptions rather than the rule for rare disease. Ashkenazi Jews had a bottleneck effect; SSD is a gain of function, etc. They other thing they have in common is a relatively high allele frequency in the general population.
For interference where a heterozygote would be effected (and therefore selected again) most variants would be de novo; so a homozygous mutant would require simultaneous and identical de novo mutations to occur in the same individual.
lituranga t1_ja9pb51 wrote
Yes fair, just meaning to clarify that the phrase exceedingly improbable is a bit inaccurate since there are a huge amount of examples of disorders that work this way in reality.
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