Hardy Weinberg
Myotonic dystrophy is an autosomal recessive disorder affecting 1 in 500 people in Quebec. What are the expected frequencies for the dominant and recessive alleles in the Quebec population?
- Dominant?
- Recessive?
- What percent of the Quebec population would you expect to be homozygous for the normal (non-disease) allele?
- Myotonic dystrophy affects one in 7500 people in all of Canada. What would be the expected frequency of carriers of myotonic dystrophy in Canada?
- Assuming the population of Canada is 30 million people, what number of people in Canada would you expect to be carriers?