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carrier rate

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-001474

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

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-001474
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Synonymscarrier frequency
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-001474",
  "term": "carrier rate",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "The proportion of individuals in a population who have a single copy of a specific recessive genetic variant. Carrier rate also sometimes refers to the prevalence of variants in dominantly acting genes, such as BRCA1 and BRCA2. Also called carrier frequency.",
  "synonyms": [
    "carrier frequency"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/carrier-rate/"
}

Record 4,283 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.