In a study of the Hopi, a Native American tribe of central Arizona, Woolf and Dukepoo...

 

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In a study of the Hopi, a Native American tribe of central Arizona, Woolf and Dukepoo (1959) found 26 albino individuals in a total population of 6000. This form of albinism is controlled by a single gene with two alleles: albinism is recessive to normal skin coloration. (a) Why can't you calculate the allele frequencies directly from these data? (b) Calculate the expected allele frequencies and genotype frequencies if the population were in Hardy- Weinberg equilibrium. How many of the Hopi are estimated to be carriers of the recessive albino allele? In a study of the Hopi, a Native American tribe of central Arizona, Woolf and Dukepoo (1959) found 26 albino individuals in a total population of 6000. This form of albinism is controlled by a single gene with two alleles: albinism is recessive to normal skin coloration. (a) Why can't you calculate the allele frequencies directly from these data? (b) Calculate the expected allele frequencies and genotype frequencies if the population were in Hardy- Weinberg equilibrium. How many of the Hopi are estimated to be carriers of the recessive albino allele?