2. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
Inheritance in Diploids and Haploids
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Problem 6a
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Textbook QuestionA couple and some of their relatives are screened for Gaucher disease in a community-based screening program. The woman is homozygous for the dominant allele, represented by G. The woman's father, sister, and paternal grandmother are heterozygous carriers of the mutant allele, represented by g. Her paternal grandfather, her mother, and both of her mother's parents are homozygous for the dominant allele. The man is heterozygous and he has a brother with Gaucher disease. The man's parents and grandparents have not been tested, but it is known that none of them has Gaucher disease.
Explain why you are able to assign genotypes to the man's parents despite their not being tested.
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