Figure 1.

Bounds on $F_{\mathrm{ST}}$ as a function of the frequency of the most frequent allele, M, for different numbers of subpopulations K: (A) $K=2,$ (B) $K=3,$ (C) $K=7,$ (D) $K=10,$ and (E) $K=40.$ The shaded region represents the space between the upper and lower bounds on $F_{\mathrm{ST}}.$ The upper bound is computed from Equation 5; for each K, the lower bound is 0 for all values of M.