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genetic carrier |
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genetic carrier, a person who carries an allele without exhibiting its effects. Such an allele is usually recessive, but it may also be dominant and latent, with symptoms that do not appear until adulthood. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Genetic carrier testing of the mother had indicated she had a "balanced translocation" of chromosomes 11 and 22, which meant that while she was unaffected, there was a risk that her children could have an abnormal number of chromosomes. Genetic discrimination is further expanded by misunderstanding the difference between being a genetic carrier for a disease and actually having a disease. Turner (1995) surmises that the maternal influence so often related to homosexuality may lie in the mother being a genetic carrier, and offers the hypothesis that homosexuality is caused by a gene at Xq28. |
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