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nonpenetrance

(non-PEH-neh-trunts)
An instance in which an individual has a trait-associated or disease-causing genetic variant, but the individual does not have the phenotype or condition. An example of nonpenetrance is a woman with a BRCA1 pathogenic variant who lives to be elderly and never develops breast or ovarian cancer.
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