The allele frequency represents the incidence of a gene variant in a population. Alleles are variant forms of a gene that are located at the same position, or genetic locus, on a chromosome.

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The equilibrium for a population with the alleles A and a, for example, would be allele frequencies of .6A and .4a and genotype frequencies of .36AA, .48Aa, and .16aa. By describing specific ideal ...