Which locus has the oldest allele?

doi:10.1007/BF00160191

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Which locus has the oldest allele?

Journal of mathematical biology - 1 Jan 1991

Griffiths R C

Abstract excerpt

This paper studies aspects of the distribution of non-mutant ancestors of a sample of gametes in a two-locus infinitely-many-alleles model. The ancestral process of two gametes is considered in detail. Included are algorithms for calculating the probability that the oldest allele is from the firs...

Topics

Alleles
Biological Evolution
Chromosome Mapping
Genetic Linkage
Genetics, Population
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Models, Statistical
Probability
Recombination, Genetic
Software

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