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.

A. autosomal recessive
B. autosomal dominant
C. sex-linked recessive

D. sex-linked dominant


A

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