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people You are an epidemiologist visiting an isolated

Last updated: 8/28/2023

people You are an epidemiologist visiting an isolated

people You are an epidemiologist visiting an isolated village in the sub Saharan African nation of Somalia There are 30 in this village and you diagnose 25 with sickle cell anemia which is a recessive autosomal disorder Assume that mating is random in this population and round to 3 decimals in your calculations Part 1 What is the frequency of the recessive phenotype What is the frequency of the recessive allele Part 2 Given the frequency of the recessive allele what is the frequency of the dominant allele O 0 083 O 0 957 O 0 917 O 0 711 Part 3 Given the information you have determined so far in order to calculate the predicted frequency of heterozygotes in the population you should now take the frequency of the two alleles p Vand q to calculate the final answer which is Now calculate the estimated number of formula of and use the