Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781259700903
Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 3, Problem 49P
You have come into contact with two unrelated patients who express what you think is a rare
| a. | Given that this trait is rare, do you think the inheritance is dominant or recessive? |
| Are there any special conditions that appear to apply to the inheritance? | |
| b. | Which non-expressing members of these families must carry the mutant allele? |
| c. | If this trait is instead quite common in the population, what alternative |
| explanation would you propose for the inheritance? | |
| d. | Based on this new explanation in (c), which non-expressing members of these |
| families must have the genotype normally causing the trait? |
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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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