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The equivalence of some overlapping and non-overlapping generation models for the study of genetic drift

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

C. Cannings*
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield

Abstract

The paper discusses models for genetic drift in haploid models; non-overlapping models following Wright, and overlapping models following Moran. It is shown that these models, and their extensions by Chia and Watterson, can all be restated as non-overlapping models. This equivalence between the two sets of models greatly facilitates the specification of latent roots and vectors.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1973 

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