Consider a Human Illness in Which Individuals Homozygous for a Deleterious,recessive

question 9

Short Answer

Consider a human illness in which individuals homozygous for a deleterious,recessive allele suffer from a disease with a selection coefficient of s = 0.85 (i.e.,a relative fitness of 0.15).At equilibrium,the nondeleterious allele has a population frequency of 0.95.What is the mutation rate from the healthy allele to the deleterious allele?

Evaluate determinants of 2x2 and 3x3 matrices.

Apply elementary row operations for matrix simplification and solving systems.

Solve systems of linear equations using matrices.

Use Cramer's Rule to solve systems of linear equations.

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