Open AccessON THE ESTIMATION OF EFFECTIVE NUMBER OF ALLELES FROM ELECTROPHORETIC DATA
Author(s) -
George B. Johnson
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792
H-Index - 246
eISSN - 1943-2631
pISSN - 0016-6731
DOI - 10.1093/genetics/78.2.771
Subject(s) - allele , biology , ambiguity , genetics , estimation , allele frequency , value (mathematics) , evolutionary biology , statistics , gene , mathematics , computer science , management , economics , programming language
Estimation of the effective number of alleles in natural populations from the frequencies of electrophoretically detected alleles involves significant ambiguity, which should be explicitly considered in the estimate. For large genetic populations the ambiguity importantly affects the value of ne.
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