Estimation of mutation rates from the number of rare alleles in a sample.

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To estimate the mutation rate from rare electrophoretic variants, a revised estimating equation is derived that takes into account the sampling distribution of the observed number of rare alleles in a sample drawn from the population. A check of the approximations used here suggests that the derived estimating equation is superior to the currently available one that is based on the expected number of rare alleles...

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