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  • BRCA2 tumor suppressor gene on chromosome 13
    human genetic disease
    / Estimating probability: Bayes’s theorem

    …of all joint probabilities, the posterior probability is arrived at. Posterior probability is the likelihood that the individual, whose genotype is uncertain, either carries the mutant gene or does not. One example application of this method, applied to the sex-linked recessive disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), is given below.

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    …of all joint probabilities, the posterior probability is arrived at. Posterior probability is the likelihood that the individual, whose genotype is uncertain, either carries the mutant gene or does not. One example application of this method, applied to the sex-linked recessive disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), is given below.

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