You are analyzing a human pedigree for a new disease and discover that the disease occurs with the same frequency in both sexes and that 25% of the children from two unaffected heterozygous parents have the disease. This disease is displaying ________ inheritance.

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The fact that the disease occurs with the same frequency in both sexes suggests that it is not sex-linked. The inheritance pattern of 25% of children from unaffected heterozygous parents having the disease is characteristic of autosomal recessive inheritance.

You Are Analyzing a Human Pedigree for a New Disease