Question

Neurofibromatosis, a genetic disease caused by mutation on the NF1 gene, follows an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance. The diagram shows that the father carries two copies of the defective gene and the mother is unaffected. What percentage of offspring will have neurofibromatosis?

Answer 1

Genetic drift is a process in which allele frequencies within a population change by chance alone as a result of sampling error from generation to generation. Genetic drift is a random process that can lead to large changes in populations over a short period of time.