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carrier frequency

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-001472

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.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-001472
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Synonymscarrier rate
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-001472",
  "term": "carrier frequency",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "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.",
  "synonyms": [
    "carrier rate"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/carrier-frequency/"
}

Record 4,281 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.