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. 1975 May;80(1):223–226. doi: 10.1093/genetics/80.1.223

On Nei and Roychoudhury's Sampling Variances of Heterozygosity and Genetic Distance

S Mitra 1
PMCID: PMC1213317  PMID: 1137971

Abstract

Nei and Roychoudhury have developed an inequality relationship between the expected values of (jx- g)2 and (ĝ-g)2 where jx is a biased and ĝ is an unbiased estimate of population homozygosity g. Their inequality is somewhat weak and can be improved, as is demonstrated in this paper.

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  1. Nei M., Roychoudhury A. K. Sampling variances of heterozygosity and genetic distance. Genetics. 1974 Feb;76(2):379–390. doi: 10.1093/genetics/76.2.379. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

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