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carrier frequency

(KAYR-ee-er FREE-kwen-see)

The proportion of individuals in a population who have a single copy of a specific recessive genetic variant. Carrier frequency also sometimes refers to the prevalence of variants in dominantly acting genes, such as BRCA1 and BRCA2. Also called carrier rate.

carrier frequency

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