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MacBelieve103 karma

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Did it work?

MacBelieve89 karma

I don't think your math is right. If you're homozygous recessive and that genotype is 1:10000 then the prevalence of a single allele (carrier) would be much higher and probably pretty close to 1/50 (using HWE). That would make your chances of meeting someone who could produce PKU offspring much higher 1/10000 + 1/50 is very close to 1/50. Then the chance that you have a PKU kid is 50:50 for each child you have. If you have multiple children, then you're asking about a binomial distribution and I don't really want to get into that.

TLDR: 1/50 chance you mate with at least a carrier. 1/2 chance your kid is homozygous recessive. 1/100 chance that your offspring has PKU. Moral of the story is get your baby-mommas tested.

MacBelieve64 karma

Do you ever find it overwhelming/annoying to have so much of your identity wrapped up in your hearing loss (e.g. deafgamer)? I find myself jabbing at my deaf friends a lot about their hearing not fully realizing that they probably get those comments all the time. The same way a tall person gets tired of people starting conversations with "wow you're tall!" Etc.

MacBelieve17 karma

Like I always say. If you're going to do something, do it defiantly.

MacBelieve8 karma

I think it was in learn programming