Sibling recurrence risk is the conditional probability that another child has the disease, given an affected sibling. For unaffected parents, complete penetrance and a single recessive disease allele, the affected child identifies both parents as genetic carriers. Independent Mendelian segregation then gives recurrence probability , whether or not the parents are related. Incomplete penetrance, phenocopies, different causal loci or affected parents change this calculation.
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