Hardy–Weinberg law

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Hardy–Weinberg law In an infinitely large, interbreeding population in which mating is random and in which there is no selection, migration, or mutation, gene and genotype frequencies will remain constant from generation to generation. In practice these conditions are rarely strictly present, but unless any departure is a marked one, there is no statistically significant movement away from equilibrium. Consider a single pair of alleles, A and a, present in a diploid population with frequencies of p and q respectively. Three genotypes are possible, AA, Aa, and aa, and these will be present with frequencies of p2, 2pq, and q2 respectively. The law was established in 1908 by G. H. Hardy and W. Weinberg.

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