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?

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