This time Miley has a child with Dawson (it is a big scandal). Neither Miley nor Dawson has Wilson's disease. What is the probability that their child will be homozygous for the dominant allele at the ATP7B locus? 1 1/2 1/4 1/16 2/3 3/4 1/9 1/8 4/9 1/6 1/3
This time Miley has a child with Dawson (it is a big scandal). Neither Miley nor Dawson has Wilson's disease. What is the probability that their child will be homozygous for the dominant allele at the ATP7B locus? 1 1/2 1/4 1/16 2/3 3/4 1/9 1/8 4/9 1/6 1/3
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This time Miley has a child with Dawson (it is a big scandal). Neither Miley nor Dawson has Wilson's disease.
What is the probability that their child will be homozygous for the dominant allele at the ATP7B locus?
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Step 1: Introduce about the pedigree
The given pedigree shows inheritance of the disease from unaffected parents to affected children. So, the parents must be heterozygous carriers of the disease. It indicates that the gene is inherited by a recessive allele.
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