A 33 year old man has X-linked dominant disease. Wife his homozygous for normal at locus. Disease genotype has 60 % penetrance. 1. What is probability that first child will be affected with this disorder? Show your work?

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1. A 33 year old man has X-linked dominant disease. Wife his homozygous for normal at locus. Disease genotype has 60 % penetrance. 1. What is probability that first child will be affected with this disorder? Show your work?

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So only daughters will be affected since boys get Y sex chromosome from dad but daughters get fucked up X chromosome. Soo right off bat 50 % chance. But since it has 60 % penetrance this means that first someone with the allele there is a 60 % chance it will present. So probability would be 50 % chance of girl X 60 % chance of penetrance = 30 % chance of first child being affected by the disorder.

A 33 year old man has X-linked dominant disease. Wife his homozygous for normal at locus. Disease genotype has 60 % penetrance. 1. What is probability that first child will be affected with this disorder? Show your work?

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A 33 year old man has X-linked dominant disease. Wife his homozygous for normal at locus. Disease genotype has 60 % penetrance. 1. What is probability that first child will be affected with this disorder? Show your work?

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