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23andMe Predict the Genetic Probability of Lactose Intolerance Inheritance

Education Level: High School, Undergraduate, Continuing Education
Topics: Biology, Health + Medicine, Mathematics
Teaching with: Sample 23andMe Reports
Keywords: Alleles, Genes, Genotype, Inheritance, Lactose Intolerance

Abstract

An activity that uses a real family’s genotype data for lactose intolerance to practice applications of Punnett Squares and the Hardy-Weinberg equation.

Students will be able to:

Predict the phenotypic and genotypic probability that a couple’s offspring will experience lactose intolerance.
Determine genotype frequency at marker rs4988235 for different populations.