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Compound heterozygosity

Two recessive alleles that can cause a particular disease in a heterozygous state. Lets take sickle cell anemia as an example. If you had one allele for hemoglobin S and one allele for hemoglobin C, you would still get the disease even though you are heterozygous for both genes.

 
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