The table shows the risk of inheriting the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis across different ethnic populations.   Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that is caused by the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutation. A person with one mutation is considered a carrier, but if a child inherits two mutations, the disease will be expressed. Based on the risk values in the table and assuming these populations are in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, how does the frequency of recessive allele in the Caucasian population compare to the frequency of the recessive allele in the Asian population?

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