What is the chance that the child would be a carrier

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Roberto Hines

2 March, 15:10

What is the chance that the child would be a carrier

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Stanley · Answer 1

There is a 1 in 4 (25 percent) chance that the child will inherit both normal copies of a gene, and be unaffected and not a carrier. If only one parent is a carrier and the other is not, none of the children will have the condition. But each child will have a 50 percent chance of being a carrier