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#Question id: 17994


Consider a heritable autosomal disease with an incidence in the population of 1 per thousand. On average, individuals with the disease have 80% as many children as the population average. In answering the various parts of this question, assume that mating is random. What mutation rate would be required to maintain the observed incidence of the disease in the population if the disease is dominant?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. 2.5 X 10-5
  2. 6.4 X 10-3
  3. 2 X 10-4
  4. 0.0001