Human Traits Pattern According to Hardy Weinbergs Law in Himachal Pradesh, India

Dr.Rashmi Kohli, Dr.Neelam K. Sharma

The Hardy Weinberg’s Law states that the allele frequency remains constant in a population. When we consider gene frequencies as p and q, the genotype frequencies will be p2, 2pq and q2 for homozygous dominant, heterozygous dominant and homozygous recessive respectively. In this present study 650 samples of individuals were analyzed from Himachal Pradesh, India  (Rohru, Shimla, Kangra, Manali and Una). Out of total of 16 characters considered 12 characters showed higher degree of deviation than expected on applying chi square test hence, showing that forces like natural selection, genetic drift, mutation, non random mating, etc. have a more profound effect in the distribution of population in an area.