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if a father has a clep chin a (chin booty) will allof his children have one ?

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Posted by Judy 1245 days and 9 hours ago.

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Not necessarily. This will depend on the genetic makeup of both parents.

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Reply to Judy's Post: i need to be sure i heard different please dobble check thank you.

Posted by Judy 1245 days and 9 hours ago.

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Actually my father has a cleft chin and none of us four kids have one. But I try not to let my personal experience get in the way of my professional work! So - I will do some more research, but I am curious about why this is so important to you.

Edited by judi1 on 6/27/2006 at 1:00 AM

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Reply to Judy's Post: i heard that if the father has a cleft chin that allof his childern will have one that it is geneticly impossible not to have one that it is a reseptive geane

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That is correct that it is a recessive gene. That means that you must have 2 recessive genes for the chin cleft to show. So the father has two recessive genes and always passes one to each of his offspring. Now Mom comes in to the picture - she has a cleft chin as well, so she has 2 recessive genes and passes one on to each of her offspring - in that case, the children will all have cleft chins. Let's bring in a different Mom. This one doesn't have a cleft chin, but she has one recessive trait. This means she can give each child a recessive or a dominant gene (the dominant gene is for no cleft). So whenever they have a child, there is always a 50% chance of the child having a cleft and a 50% chance of the child having a trait for it, but no visible cleft.

This website gets a little technical.

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=47

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Not necessarily. This will depend on the genetic makeup of both parents.

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Actually my father has a cleft chin and none of us four kids have one. But I try not to let my personal experience get in the way of my professional work! So - I will do some more research, but I am curious about why this is so important to you.Edited by judi1 on 6/27/2006 at 1:00 AM

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Actually my father has a cleft chin and none of us four kids have one. But I try not to let my personal experience get in the way of my professional work! So - I will do some more research, but I am curious about why this is so important to you.

Edited by judi1 on 6/27/2006 at 1:00 AM