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Abstract
The disorder associated with mutation in the WDR62 gene MCPH2 is taken as the prototype of a condition which has a recessive mode of inheritance. The mutant homozygote has relatively lower fitness defined by the selection coefficient. Formulae which relate the incidence of the disorder to the mutation rate and the gene frequency in equilibrium when some degree of inbreeding occurs in the population are given.Entities:
Keywords: WDR62 gene; fitness; microcephaly; mutation; recessive incidence
Year: 2016 PMID: 27570775 PMCID: PMC4980368 DOI: 10.21037/atm.2016.07.08
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Transl Med ISSN: 2305-5839