Estimate of the Human Load of Mutations from Heterogeneous Consanguineous Samples
- 4 November 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 132 (3436) , 1317
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.132.3436.1317
Abstract
A formula is presented for the calculation of the mean number of lethal and abnormal equivalents per person. It has been applied to Brazilian, French, and Japanese data.Keywords
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