Plan to spend 40 minutes on this exercise
- STANDARD
Consider a locus with two alleles, A and a. This gene is subject
to mutation process (mutation rate mu) and selection. The selection
acts agains aa homozygoutes (survival is 0.3). It was determined
that the carrier frequency in the population is 0.00076.
Question: what is the mutation rate, mu?answer
- STANDARD
Consider a locus with two alleles, A and a. This gene is subject
to mutation process (mutation rate mu = 10-5) and selection
pressure. The selection acts agains aa homozygoutes (survival is 0.3).
Question: what is the frequency of allele a, q? What is the
carrier frequency?answer
- STANDARD
Consider a locus with two alleles, A and a. This gene is subject
to mutation process (mutation rate mu = 10-6) and selection
pressure.
The selection acts agains aa homozygoutes (survival is 0.7).
Question: what is the frequency of allele a, q? What is the carrier
frequency?answer
- STANDARD
Repeat previous exercise, using initial frequency of 0.05 and
mutation rate of 1 in billion (10-9).
- STANDARD
In a population, a mutation D is present with
frequency of 20%. This mutation is neutral.
At some point in the time, the enviroment
changes and the mutation starts affecting survival.
Namely, when homozygous, it leads to 20% mortality (so 8 out of 10
survive). Assume no mutation.
How many generation will it take before the frequency is reduced
- Two-fold?
- Four-fold?
- Ten-fold?