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Human Heredity 11th Edition by Michael Cummings

Edition 11ISBN: 978-1305251052
book Human Heredity 11th Edition by Michael Cummings cover

Human Heredity 11th Edition by Michael Cummings

Edition 11ISBN: 978-1305251052
Exercise 19
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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