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In Northern European populations, the incidence of cystic fibrosis is about 1/2500 or 0.0004. What is the frequency of carriers (heterozygous individuals that have a disease-associated allele, but don’t have the disease) in the population?

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Description: in northern european populations the incidence of cystic fibrosis is about 12500 or 00004 what is the frequency of carriers heterozygous individuals that have a disease associated allele but 08332

          In Northern European populations, the incidence of cystic
fibrosis is about 1/2500 or 0.0004. What is the frequency of
carriers (heterozygous individuals that have a disease-associated
allele, but don’t have the disease) in the population?

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06/16/2022

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0004, we can calculate the recessive allele frequency (q) using the formula q^2 = 0.0004. q = √0.0004 q = 0.02 Show more…

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In Northern European populations, the incidence of cystic fibrosis is about 1/2500 or 0.0004. What is the frequency of carriers (heterozygous individuals that have a disease-associated allele, but don’t have the disease) in the population?