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Keywords: Offspring, Gene, Canavan, Liposomes, Globules

Related Terms: Allele, Genetic, Genotype, Mutation, Polymorphism, Carrier, Genes , X-Linked, Dominant Inheritance, Genetic Marker, Candidate Gene, Autosomal Dominant, Genotyping, Haplotype, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Snp, Genetic Disorder, Mutant, Genetic Linkage, Autosomal Dominant Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive Inheritance, Polygenic Inheritance, Genomic Imprinting, Autosomal Recessive, Sporadic, Carrier Testing, Gene Mutation, Suppressor Gene, Suppressor Mutation, Recessive Inheritance, Recessive Gene, Penetrance, Dominant Gene, Allozymes, Genetic Disease, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Null Allele, Mutations, Linkage Analysis, Genetic Markers, Genetic Susceptibility, Germline Mutation, Genetic Predisposition, Genetic Mutation, Polygenic, Loss Of Heterozygosity, Hereditary Mutation, Haploinsufficiency, Monogenic, Single Gene Disorder

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apparently healthy people who harbor disease-causing microbes in the body and who can infect others by passing the microbes on to them.

http://niaid.nih.gov/publications/microbes.htm

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A person who has genes for a specific disease, but does not develop symptoms of that disease.

http://rarediseasesnetwork.epi.usf.edu/clic/learnmore/glossary.htm

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Substances or particles that can transfer genes into a cell. These include viruses, liposomes (fat globules) and artificial chromosomes (sequences of DNA created in a laboratory) that can transport large amounts of DNA.

http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/topitems/glossary.cfm

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individuals whose genetic makeup carries the potential to pass on to their children a specific mutated gene that can lead to a disease (such as Canavan), even though these carriers are not themselves at risk for the disease.

http://www.canavanfoundation.org/glossary.php

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people who have a disease-causing gene but do not have the disease because they have one normal gene.

http://www.glhf.org/glossary.htm

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Persons who possess and can pass a recessive gene to their offspring, but do not express the trait themselves. Because hemophilia is an X-linked, recessive trait, females are carriers of hemophilia but are seldom affected.

http://www.hemophiliagalaxy.com/patients/resources/kits/KIDS/glossary.html

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persons who carry a gene for a disease but do not have the disease.

http://www.state.nj.us/health/fhs/sicklecell/append.htm

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Individuals that carry one normal and one abnormal gene. These individuals can transmit the disease by passing the gene to their offspring.

http://www.alpha1health.com/paf/glossary.html

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