ETHNIC VARIATION OF GENETIC-DISEASE - ROLES OF DRIFT FOR RECESSIVE LETHAL GENES
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 30 (3) , 262-270
Abstract
Using Wright''s distribution of gene frequencies for a recessive lethal gene in humans, a method is given to analyze the probability that any particular gene frequency is greater than a given threshold gene frequency. The method is introduced to analyze the plausibility of drift for explaining observed data.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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