allele frequency
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allele
noun[C]
uk/əˈliːl/us/əˈliːl/
a gene that is found in one of two or more different forms in the same position in a chromosome, and so produces a particular characteristic that can be different for different people, such as ...
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frequency
noun
uk/ˈfriː.kwən.si/us/ˈfriː.kwən.si/
the number of times something happens within a particular period, or the fact of something happening often or a large number ...
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Description and power analysis of two tests for detecting recent population bottlenecks fromallelefrequencydata.
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A new method for estimating the effective population size fromallelefrequencychanges.
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Single-species alignments, which contained fewer gaps and were therefore shorter, were used to analyse sequence variation,allelefrequencyspectrum and recombination within species.
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This is an artefact due to the particular combination ofallelefrequencydistribution and error model adopted in the simulations.
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The level of polymorphism was adjusted by varying the number of alleles per locus and theallelefrequencydistributions.
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Distortion ofallelefrequencydistributions provides a test for recent population bottlenecks.
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Genetic distances were estimated assuming that differences inallelefrequencydistributions between populations were due to drift.
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They report five different analyses of this data examining genotypes,allelefrequency, and additive, dominant and recessive models.
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A generalised approach for estimating effective population size from temporal changes inallelefrequency.
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For the infinite-sites model, the expected time a novel variant spends within a givenallelefrequency interval is also independent of mutational parameters.
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Theallelefrequencyis estimated from epidemiological surveys that determine disease prevalence.
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A generalized approach for estimating effective population size from temporal changes inallelefrequency.
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Together, the sets allowed contrasts that separate effects ofallelefrequencyper se from possible effects of number of alleles.
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The method can be understood by thinking of the way fluctuations inallelefrequencypropagate across the barrier.
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Because changes inallelefrequencyand recombination are both intrinsically stochastic, there are limits to the accuracy achievable with any method.
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Indeed, it may be for this reason that the stronger correlation with longitude was observed with the genotype data than theallelefrequencyscores.
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