Hardy-Weinberg Law

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Theorem

Let $A$ and $a$ be alleles.

Let $A$ and $a$ occur in a population in proportions $p$ and $q = 1 - p$.

Then after one generation of random mating, the genotypes $AA$, $Aa$ and $aa$ are in proportions $p^2$, $2 p q$ and $q^2$.


Proof



Also known as

The Hardy-Weinberg Law is also known as the Hardy-Weinberg Principle.


Also see


Source of Name

This entry was named for Godfrey Harold Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg.


Historical Note

The Hardy-Weinberg Law was deduced by Godfrey Harold Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg in $1908$.


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