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. 2013 May 8;111(3):189–199. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2013.37

Table 3. Measures of genetic diversity as a function of the size of the breeding and sample windows.

  Sample window
Breeding window (BW) SW1 SW9 SW16 SW25 SW49 SW64 SW100 SW484 SW1936 SW4356
BW9 (Ho=0.720)
 Alleles/locus 5.08 6.86 7.50 8.04 9.02 9.47 10.31 14.65 21.65 28.13
 He 0.674 0.674 0.729 0.743 0.766 0.777 0.791 0.849 0.900 0.926
 FIS −0.064 −0.011 0.012 0.030 0.059 0.071 0.090 0.152 0.198 0.221
                     
BW25 (Ho=0.872)
 Alleles/locus 12.16 14.07 14.76 15.39 16.56 17.09 18.09 22.97 29.75 35.37
 He 0.850 0.859 0.863 0.867 0.874 0.878 0.884 0.909 0.931 0.944
 FIS −0.025 −0.015 −0.011 −0.006 0.003 0.007 0.015 0.041 0.064 0.076
                     
BW49 (Ho=0.925)
 Alleles/locus 20.99 22.55 23.12 23.72 24.82 25.36 26.38 31.35 37.67 42.44
 He 0.911 0.914 0.915 0.917 0.920 0.922 0.925 0.937 0.949 0.956
 FIS −0.015 −0.012 −0.010 −0.009 −0.005 −0.003 0.000 0.013 0.025 0.033
                     
BW81 (Ho=0.948)
 Alleles/locus 29.44 30.58 31.03 31.50 32.39 32.84 33.72 38.19 43.67 47.54
 He 0.938 0.939 0.940 0.940 0.942 0.943 0.944 0.951 0.958 0.963
 FIS −0.011 −0.010 −0.009 −0.008 −0.007 −0.006 −0.004 0.003 0.011 0.016

Notes: Ho, mean observed heterozygosity; He, mean expected heterozygosity; and FIS, relative observed excess of homozygotes relative to Hardy–Weinberg proportions. Data are based on replicate samples of 100 individuals from each combination of breeding and SWs.