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A note on assortative mating, linkage and genotypic frequencies
Author(s) -
Wilson S. R.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
annals of human genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1469-1809
pISSN - 0003-4800
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1978.tb00937.x
Subject(s) - assortative mating , linkage (software) , biology , genetics , mating , genotype , evolutionary biology , gene
Summary It is shown that in the equilibrium position with respect to the assortative mating process given by Fisher's (1918) model, the population is in linkage disequilibrium, contrary to a result given by Vetta (1975).