The distribution of coalescence times and distances between microsatellite alleles with changing effective population size.

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We investigate the effects of past changes of the effective population size on the present allelic diversity at a microsatellite marker locus. We first derive the analytical expression of the generating function of the joint probabilities of the time to the Most Recent Common Ancestor for a pair of alleles and of their distance (the difference in allele size). We give analytical solutions in the case of constant...

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