Multiple Choice
A 47-year-old patient with osteoarthritis and hypertension is diagnosed with breast cancer. She tells the nurse that her mother also suffered from osteoarthritis and hypertension, and she developed breast cancer at the age of 51 years. The nurse should recognize that this patients health status may be the result of what phenomenon?
A) X-linked inheritance
B) Autosomal recessive inheritance
C) Autosomal dominant inheritance
D) Multifactorial inheritance
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