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The length of time required for a selectively neutral mutant to reach fixation through random frequency drift in a finite population*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Motoo Kimura
Motoo Kimura
Affiliation:
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
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Frequency distribution of the length of time until fixation (excluding the cases of eventual loss) of a selectively neutral mutant in a finite population was obtained. With 4Ne generations (Ne, effective population size) as the unit length of time, the distribution has mean μ1 = 1, standard deviation σ = 0·538, skewness γ1 = 1·67 and kurtosis γ2 = 4·51 (see Fig. 1).

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Short Papers
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Genetics Research , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1970 , pp. 131 - 133
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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