Consider a human illness in which individuals that are homozygous for a deleterious recessive allele suffer from a disease with a selection coefficient of s = 0.85. At equilibrium, the nondeleterious allele has a frequency of 0.95
What is the mutation rate from the healthy allele to the deleterious allele?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:
0.00215
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