Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: SAMANTA, SUVAJIT. A Statistical Characterization of the Genetic Structure of Populations. (Under the direction of Bruce Spencer Weir).In a random mating population the second order descent measure which is also known as coancestry coefficient (θ) characterizes population structure.This structure provides information regarding the history of a population.Characterizing inbred populations, however, requires third (γ) and fourth order (δ and ∆ 2,2 ) descent measures.These descent measures are also used to find different expressions in DNA profile LIST OF FIGURES 1.1 γ e , δ e , ∆ e from equations (1.21) (dotted line) and γ n , δ n , ∆ 2,2,n from equations (1.17) (dashed line) compared to exact value of γ, δ, ∆ 2,2 under a pure drift model and a both-way mutation model (same as an infinite allele model).N = 5,000 and the mutation rate of the both-way mutation model is 0.0005. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 6.1 The fission and sampling process for the pure drift model and both-way mutation model.This also shows the genetic and statistical sampling involved in genetic data analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97 x
Author: Suvajit Samanta
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2496698590