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A mathematical problem in population genetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. F. C. Kingman
Affiliation:
Pembroke CollegeCambridge

Extract

A genetical population in which different genotypes have different viabilities will undergo, by selection, changes in its genetical constitution which can be expressed in a simple mathematical form. We here consider a system of m alleles A1, A2, …, Am segregating at one locus, and we assume that the genotype AiAj has viability aij, where aij = aji ≥ 0. We assume discrete, non-overlapping generations and random mating.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1961

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