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Of the following types of diseases, which one would give you maximum certainty of the genotypes for all affected individuals based on their phenotypes? A. Reduced penetrant autosomal recessive disease with no phenocopies. B. Reduced penetrant autosomal dominant disease with no phenocopies. C. Fully penetrant autosomal recessive disease with non-zero phenocopies. D. Fully penetrant lethal dominant autosomal disease with non-zero phenocopies. E. X-linked recessive disease with non-zero phenocopies.

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