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Indirect measures of gene flow and migration: FST not equal to 1/(4Nm + 1).

Heredity - 1 Feb 1999

Whitlock M C, McCauley D E

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The difficulty of directly measuring gene flow has lead to the common use of indirect measures extrapolated from genetic frequency data. These measures are variants of FST, a standardized measure of the genetic variance among populations, and are used to solve for Nm, the number of migrants successfully entering a population per generation. Unfortunately, the mathematical model underlying this translation makes...

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PMID: 10098262
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6884960

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