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. 1978 May;30(3):262–270.

Ethnic variation of genetic disease: roles of drift for recessive lethal genes.

D Wagener, L L Cavalli-Sforza, R Barakat
PMCID: PMC1685590  PMID: 677123

Abstract

Using Wright's distribution of gene frequencies for a recessive lethal gene, a method is given to analyze the probability that any particular gene frequency is greater than a given threshold gene frequency. The method is introduced to analyze the plausibility of drift for explaining observed data.

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