The distribution of rare alleles.

Abstract excerpt

Population geneticists have long been interested in the behavior of rare variants. The definition of a rare variant has been the subject of some debate, centered mainly on whether alleles with small relative frequency should be considered rare, or whether alleles with small numbers should be. We study the behavior of the counts of rare alleles in samples taken from a population genetics model that allows for...

Topics

• Alleles
• Gene Frequency
• Genetics, Population
• Models, Genetic
• Models, Theoretical
• Mutation
• Poisson Distribution
• Selection, Genetic