Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Michael Cummings
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Chapter 15, Problem 2QP
Hemophilia and color blindness are both recessive conditions caused by genes on the X chromosome. To calculate the recombination frequency between the two genes, you draw a large number of pedigrees that include grandfathers with both hemophilia and color blindness, their daughters (who presumably have one chromosome with two normal alleles and one chromosome with two mutant alleles), and the daughters’ sons. Analyzing all the pedigrees together shows that 25 grandsons have both color blindness and hemophilia, 24 have neither of the traits, 1 has color blindness only, and 1 has hemophilia only. How many centimorgans (map units) separate the hemophilia locus from the locus for color blindness?
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Hemophilia and color blindness are both recessive conditions caused by genes on the X chromosome . To calculate the recombination frequency between the two genes, you draw a large number of pedigrees that include grandfathers with both hemophilia and color blindness , their daughters (who presumably have one chromosome with two normal alleles and one chromosome with two mutant alleles), and the daughters’ sons. Analyzing all the pedigrees together shows that 25 grandsons have both color blindness and hemophilia 24 have neither of the traits , 1 has color blindness only and 1 has hemophilia only . how many centimorgans seperate the hemophilia locus from the locus of the color blindness.
Hemophilia and colorblindness are both recessive conditions caused by mutations in genes on the X chromosome. To calculate the recombination frequency between the two genes, you draw a large number of pedigrees that include grandfathers with both hemophilia and color blindness, their daughters (who presumably have one chromosome with the normal alleles and one chromosome with two mutant alleles), and the daughter’s sons. Analyzing all the pedigrees together shows that 25 grandsons have both color blindness and hemophilia, 24 have neither of the traits, 1 has colorblindness only, and one has hemophilia only. How many centimorgans (map units) separate the hemophilia locus from the locus for color blindness? Show your analysis
For the pedigree shown here, the disorder is caused by a recessive (g) allele on the X chromosome. Label each of the following individuals with the correct genotype (XGY, XgY, XGXG, XGXg, XgXg). a. Generation I, number 2 b. Generation II, number 2 c. Generation II, number 5 d. Generation III, number 2 e. Generation III, number 6
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