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

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 122, Issue , 2018, Pages 22-29

  King, Léandra ^a   Wakeley, John ^a   Carmi, Shai ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coalescent theory; Effective population size; Genealogies; Heterozygosity; Pedigrees; Recombination

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENE; GENEALOGY; HETEROZYGOSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MODELING; RECOMBINATION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION RATE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION RATE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 85017233680     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2017.03.002     Document Type: Article

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