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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 6#️⃣ Question 5🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Pompe's (read: Pomp-s) disease is almost always fatal before reproductive age and has a prevalence of roughly one in four hundred. Individuals are equally likely to be affected regardless of sex. Assuming short-term Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and expressing your answer as a fraction in simplest form, what fraction of the population are heterozygotes?

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