Parents of children with autosomal recessive diseases are not always carriers of the respective mutant alleles.

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Classically, each parent of a child with an autosomal recessive disease has been considered to carry at least one copy of the abnormal allele. However, with the increasing ability to characterise the molecular basis of genetic diseases, several exceptions have been reported. The most frequent sit...

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