Tay-Sachs disease (TS) is a fatal, recessive genetic

Last updated: 7/17/2022

Tay-Sachs disease (TS) is a fatal, recessive genetic disorder in which harmful quantities of a fatty waste substance accumulate in the brain, slowly progressing to death by age five. TS carriers are common among individuals of Eastern European Jewish descent, with a carrier frequency of about 1 in 27. In the general population, the carrier rate is about 1 in 250. (a) Give the probability that both parents are carriers in each of the given conditions. (Enter your answers rounded to six decimal places.) P (both parents carriers | both mom and dad are of European Jewish descent): P (both parents carriers | mom is of European Jewish descent but dad is not) : P (both parents carriers | neither mom or dad are of European Jewish descent): Question Source: Baldi de-The Practice of Statistics In The Life Sciences Publisher: W.H. Freeman