Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781259700903
Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 11, Problem 33P
The pedigrees indicated here were obtained with three unrelated families whose members express the same disease caused by a completely penetrant dominant allele. The disease allele is linked at a distance of 10 cM from an SSR marker locus with three alleles numbered 1, 2, and 3. The SSR alleles present within each living person’s genotype are indicated below the pedigree symbol. The
| a. | What is the probability of disease expression in each of these newborn babies? |
| b. | Why would a human geneticist be unlikely to use this SSR marker for diagnosis of the genetic disease? |
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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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