This was on a test for one of my classes and it's driving me crazy:
In a population, 1 in 25,000 people suffer from cystic fibrosis, a recessive disorder. Calculate the frequency of the dominant p allele, the frequency of the recessive q allele, and the frequency of heterozygotes.
I'm just curious what you get for answers, I already (for the most part) know how to do these problems, I just don't think the answers I got were right. The equation for allelic frequency is p+q=1, and the equation for genotypic frequency is p^2+2pq+q^2=1, in case you forgot. Aaaaaanyhoo, thanks!
2006-12-06
14:00:57
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Heather T
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