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obligate carrier

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English

Syllables
ob-li-gate -car-ri-er
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An individual who may be clinically unaffected but who must carry a gene mutation based on analysis of the family history; this usually applies to disorders inherited in an autosomal recessive and X-linked recessive manner.

Inflected Forms

obligate carriers (plural)

Questions

What does obligate carrier mean?
An individual who may be clinically unaffected but who must carry a gene mutation based on analysis of the family history; this usually applies to disorders inherited in an autosomal recessive and X-linked recessive manner.

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