Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2002/iii/paper-37/6/i/solution

Let count copies of allele . Under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, has a binomial distribution with parameters , and the penetrance is . Consequently
Thus the overall penetrance is
The multiplicative diallelic penetrance model requires , , , and each occupied genotype's value to be at most one. These are probabilities, not unrestricted relative-risk scores.

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