The length of time required for a selectively neutral mutant to reach fixation through random frequency drift in a finite population
- 1 February 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Genetics Research
- Vol. 15 (1) , 131-133
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016672300001439
Abstract
SUMMARY: Frequency distribution of the length of time until fixation (excluding the cases of eventual loss) of a selectively neutral mutant in a finite population was obtained. With 4Negenerations (Ne, effective population size) as the unit length of time, the distribution has mean μ1= 1, standard deviation σ = 0·538, skewness γ1= 1·67 and kurtosis γ2= 4·51 (see Fig. 1).Keywords
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