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Angelman syndrome is a severe form of mental retardation which depends upon the gender of the parent from whom they are inherited. This unusual kind of inheritance pattern is known as

  1. modifying gene

  2. genome imprinting

  3. incomplete penetrant

  4. intermediate expression
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B Correct answer
Explanation

When genes have a different effect depending on the gender of the parent from whom they are inherited, it is referred to as genome imprinting. Diabetes, psoriasis, and Prader-Willi syndrome are other examples of this phenomenon.

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