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The algebraic equivalence of two measures of genetic distance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Jeremy E. Dawson*
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Canberra

Abstract

A formal proof is given of the equivalence, conjectured by Rostron, of two measures of the genetic difference between two populations.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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Footnotes

Present address: CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, P.O. Box 218, Lindfield NSW 2070, Australia.

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