Pairwise comparisons of mitochondrial DNA sequences in stable and exponentially growing populations.

Abstract excerpt

We consider the distribution of pairwise sequence differences of mitochondrial DNA or of other nonrecombining portions of the genome in a population that has been of constant size and in a population that has been growing in size exponentially for a long time. We show that, in a population of constant size, the sample distribution of pairwise differences will typically deviate substantially from the geometric...

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