Sentences with phrase «carriers of single gene»
Single gene PDG: Helping carriers of single gene disorders have a successful pregnancy and a healthy baby.
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About 1 in 25 people in white populations carry one normal copy of the gene and one mutated copy, and 70 per cent of all CF carriers in the northern European group carry the same single mutation in the gene.
Individual screening tests can already identify silent carriers of many single faulty recessive genes — the kind that, when inherited in double (one copy from each parent), can lead to conditions such as cystic fibrosis and Tay - Sachs disease.
Carrier testing can be ordered in various ways, including targeted single gene disease testing, panel testing of multiple genetic diseases, or less commonly through a broad genomic test looking for genetic variants throughout the genome or exome.
The vast majority of breeding dogs will not be carriers of this single defective gene.
Impressive had been the carrier of a lethal single - gene recessive trait.