Equation 25 · Part 1 · Einstein's Random Walk and the Mathematics of Genetic Drift
Symbol s
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That machinery pays off in the cleanest result in the theory of drift. Kimura’s 1962 formula for the probability that a gene with selective advantage s eventually fixes, starting from frequency p in a population of effective size N , is
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Sources cited in the article section
- [4] Fisher's historic 1922 paper On the dominance ratio ↗
- [5] Evolution in Mendelian Populations ↗
- [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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