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Do Eve's alleles live on?

Genetical research - 1 Dec 1992

Watterson G A, Donnelly P

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Consider a random sample of genes at a locus, drawn from a population evolving according to the infinitely many, neutral, alleles model. The sample will have a most recent common ancestor gene, which we shall call 'Eve'. The probability distribution, for the number of genes of oldest allelic type...

Topics

Alleles
Biological Evolution
DNA, Mitochondrial
Genes
Humans
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Probability
Stochastic Processes

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PMID: 1286806
DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300030974

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