Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2006/iii/paper-45/3/b/solution

Conditional on both generation-2 siblings carrying the specified copy , each passes it to each of their three children with probability . Their outside partners do not carry that ancestral copy. There are six independent meioses, one for each generation-3 individual forming the three cousin marriages. Consequently
This calculation ignores phenotype ascertainment in a genetic study, as requested; conditioning on the later disease observations would force these transmissions rather than assign them their prior probabilities.

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