If an Individual Has Huntington Disease (Autosomal Dominant Condition)and Is

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Essay

If an individual has Huntington disease (autosomal dominant condition)and is heterozygous,what is the probability that an offspring will receive this detrimental allele?

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Definitions:

Probability

A measure of the likelihood of occurrence of a particular event or outcome, often expressed as a number between 0 and 1.

NORM.DIST

A function in various statistical software that returns the normal distribution for a specified mean and standard deviation.

Standard Error

Standard error is a statistical measure that estimates the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population by using standard deviation.

Population Standard Deviation

Population Standard Deviation is a measure of the dispersion or spread of all the values in a given population, indicating how much the individual values in the population differ from the population mean.