A clarification of the Hardy-Weinberg law.

doi:10.1534/genetics.106.057042

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A clarification of the Hardy-Weinberg law.

Genetics - 1 Nov 2006

Stark Alan E

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C. C. Li showed that Hardy-Weinberg proportions (HWP) can be maintained in a large population by nonrandom mating as well as random mating. In particular he gave the mating matrix for the symmetric case in the most general form possible. Thus Li showed that, once HWP are attained, the same proportions can be maintained by what he called pseudorandom mating. This article shows that, starting from any genotypic...

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Alleles
Animals
Crosses, Genetic
Female
Gene Frequency
Genetics, Population
Humans
Male
Models, Genetic
Probability
Statistics as Topic

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PMID: 16702429
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.057042
PMCID: PMC1667064

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