18 February 2013

Intro. to Genetics and Evolution Week 6 Notes

This week was all about the very basics of population genetics and Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (and some deviations thereof). Good stuff.









 There was a really good post in the forums for this course on Coursera that basically proved algebraically that combining two populations, each at Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium but with different allele frequences, will ALWAYS result in a lower than expected heterozygote frequency. I'll see about getting permission to repost it and either edit it into this post or give it its own post. It was pretty cool. :)

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