A non-zero variance of Tajima's estimator for two sequences even for infinitely many unlinked loci

DOI10.1101/069989MaRDI QIDQ725142zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Léandra King, John Wakeley, Shai Carmi

Publication date 1 August 2018

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2017.03.002

zbMATH Keywords

recombinationeffective population sizepedigreesgenealogiescoalescent theoryheterozygosity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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