Research Article
The Ancestry of Genetic Segments
Table 1
Bounds on identity probabilities for a genetic segment.
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The diploid population size is , and is the probability of recombination within a segment. The value is used for the columns which bound the probability that the MRCA of a base pair is the MRCA of the entire segment. The bounds on the probability that an asymptotic ancestor of a base pair is an asymptotic ancestor of the entire segment and the asymptotic expected size of the ancestral pool of a segment are functions of . The last column is the estimate from Wiuf and Hein [8] which was obtained for a limited range of parameter values (). |