Week 3 Tutorial

Question 1

What does it mean when someone is 0/0

Answer 1

Person has 0 copies of the variant allele
* homozygous reference, or ‘wild-type’

Question 2

What does it mean when someone is 0/1

Answer 2

Person has 1 copy each of the wild-type and variant allele
* heterozygous

Question 3

What does it mean when someone is 1/1

Answer 3

this person has 2 copies of the variant allele
* homozygous