Carrier risk calculations for recessive diseases when not all the mutant alleles are detectable.

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The number of recessive diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, in which some but not all of the mutations causing the disease can be detected using genetic probes, is certain to increase. For counselling purposes, the probability that a consultand known not to have a detectable mutation is nevertheless a carrier, needs to be calculated with as much accuracy as possible. This paper describes a program, available from...

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