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specificity

(SPEH-sih-FIH-sih-tee)

The frequency with which a test shows a true negative result among individuals who do not have the disease or the genetic variant in question. A test with high specificity has a low false-positive rate, which means it does a good job of correctly identifying unaffected individuals or noncarriers of a genetic variant.

specificity

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