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what is a carrier? what is the genotype for someone who is carrier for a disease but they don't have it themselves

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A carrier is an individual who carries and is capable of passing on a genetic. Carriers are associated with diseases inherited as recessive traits. An individual having one normal allele and one mutated allele does not have the disease.

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