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Title: What is the difference between frequency and proportion when using Hardy-Weinberg? Post by: rjcool123 on Sep 2, 2012 Im doing a lab on sickle cell anemia and am confused on what is what...
The proportion of villagers with sickle cell anemia is 0.08. The question says: "What is the expected frequency of the HbS (sickle cell) allele in the village?" And then it gives a hint that says there is a simple relationship between the proportion of villagers with sickle cell anemia and q. Anyone know? Title: What is the difference between frequency and proportion when using Hardy-Weinberg? Post by: RJ5876 on Sep 2, 2012 Sickle cell anemia is homozygous recessive (ss) = q^2.
So q = the square root of 0.08 = 0.282 - the frequency. |