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Question
The pedigree chart given below represents the pattern of inheritance of thalassemia in a family.
What could be the genotype of the affected male?
Solution
22 + Xa Ya
Explanation:
Thalassemia is a recessive autosomal illness. When a guy inherits one (a) allele from his father and one (a) allele from his mother, he will be affected.
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