A multi-dimensional coalescent process applied to multi-allelic selection models and migration models.

Abstract excerpt

For a sample of two genes from a population divided into an arbitrary number of allele classes, a general mathematical framework is developed to address the expectation and variance of the time of the most recent common ancestor. Depending on the meaning of allele classes and the manner in which...

Topics

• Alleles
• Genetics, Population
• Heterozygote
• Humans
• Models, Genetic
• Models, Statistical
• Mutation