ESTIMATION OF AVERAGE HETEROZYGOSITY AND GENETIC DISTANCE FROM A SMALL NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS

Genetics - Tập 89 Số 3 - Trang 583-590 - 1978
Masatoshi Nei1
1Center for Demographic and Population Genetics, University of Texas at Houston, Texas 77025.

Tóm tắt

ABSTRACT The magnitudes of the systematic biases involved in sample heterozygosity and sample genetic distances are evaluated, and formulae for obtaining unbiased estimates of average heterozygosity and genetic distance are developed. It is also shown that the number of individuals to be used for estimating average heterozygosity can be very small if a large number of loci are studied and the average heterozygosity is low. The number of individuals to be used for estimating genetic distance can also be very small if the genetic distance is large and the average heterozygosity of the two species compared is low.

Từ khóa


Tài liệu tham khảo