What is the frequency of heterozygotes in the general population?What is the probability that an affected child will be born in each of the following situations?
BS2026: Genes, Development & Inheritance; Tutorial 2 Population genetics and chromosome rearrangements The recessive disease cystic fibrosis occurs among newborn babies in the UK at a frequency of 1 in 2,500. Given this information and assuming that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium: a) What is the frequency of the recessive CF allele in the […]