Equation 18 · Part 2 · Einstein's Random Walk and the Mathematics of Genetic Drift
Symbol t
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t is an argument of the function-like quantity on the left; its role is set by that function’s stated inputs.
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Motoo Kimura, at Japan’s National Institute of Genetics, made the borrowing exact rather than approximate. His 1955 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences solved the full time-dependent diffusion equation derived from the Wright-Fisher model, recovering not just the eventual resting distribution of an allele’s frequency but its whole transient shape as it evolves generation by generation [ 6 ] . His 1962 paper in Genetics then posed the general fixation problem as a diffusion boundary-value equation and named the lineage precisely: the question of a mutant gene’s ultimate fate was “first treated quantitatively by Fisher (1922),” with “equivalent results” reached…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [6] A General Solution of the Wright-Fisher Model of Random Genetic Drift ↗
- [7] On the Probability of Fixation of Mutant Genes in a Population ↗
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