When Takata et al. 2002 examined allele and genotype frequencies at the myoglobin locus in a Japanese popu-lation, the observed and expected genotypic frequencies were very similar

Had they been very different, what could one conclude about this locus in this population?

What will be an ideal response?


ANS:
The population is not in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium.

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