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. 2009 Jan;181(1):187–197. doi: 10.1534/genetics.107.080630

TABLE 1.

Notation for analysis of reads

Symbol Meaning
m No. of diploid individuals in the sample
n 2m, i.e., no. of chromosomes
G Length of resequenced region in base pairs
l Length of a read in base pairs
λ Rate of Poisson process
X = λl Expected coverage per haploid
θ Mutation parameter
ρ Recombination parameter
S No. of SNPs in the sample
ST No. of SNPs detected by reads
RMSE Root mean square error