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Carrier: Genes come in pairs and many genetic diseases manifest only when both genes are mutated. A person who has one good copy of a disease-causing gene and one mutated copy is said to be a carrier. A carrier does not develop the disease, but if two carriers of the same disease-causing gene have a child, the child has a 25 percent chance of inheriting two mutations and thus developing the disease.