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  2. Mutation rate - Wikipedia

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    The human germline mutation rate is approximately 0.5×10 −9 per basepair per year. [1] In genetics, the mutation rate is the frequency of new mutations in a single gene, nucleotide sequence, or organism over time. [2] Mutation rates are not constant and are not limited to a single type of mutation; there are many different types of mutations.

  3. Isolation by distance - Wikipedia

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    The equation takes into account distance (r), mutation rate (k), and the standard deviation of migration (σ). The kinship coefficient decreases as a function of distance and if a mutation occurs in either locus or if the gamete kinship chain is zero, the kinship coefficient will be zero.

  4. Mutation–selection balance - Wikipedia

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    The frequency = + of normal alleles A increases at rate / due to the selective elimination of recessive homozygotes, while mutation causes to decrease at rate (ignoring back mutations). Mutation–selection balance then gives p B B = μ / s {\displaystyle p_{BB}=\mu /s} , and so the frequency of deleterious alleles is q = μ / s {\displaystyle ...

  5. Infinite sites model - Wikipedia

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    Where k is the length of a DNA sequence and is the probability a mutation will occur at a site. [5] Watterson developed an estimator for mutation rate that incorporates the number of segregating sites (Watterson's estimator). [6] One way to think of the ISM is in how it applies to genome evolution.

  6. Conserved sequence - Wikipedia

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    This approach estimates the rate of neutral mutation in a set of species from a multiple sequence alignment, and then identifies regions of the sequence that exhibit fewer mutations than expected. These regions are then assigned scores based on the difference between the observed mutation rate and expected background mutation rate.

  7. Mutation frequency - Wikipedia

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    Mutation frequencies test are cost effective in laboratories [1] however; these two concepts provide vital information in reference to accounting for the emergence of mutations on any given germ line. [2] [3] There are several test utilized in measuring the chances of mutation frequency and rates occurring in a particular gene pool.

  8. Models of DNA evolution - Wikipedia

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    There are several assumptions. It assumes equal base frequencies (= = = =) and equal mutation rates. The only parameter of this model is therefore , the overall substitution rate. As previously mentioned, this variable becomes a constant when we normalize the mean-rate to 1.

  9. Fixation index - Wikipedia

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    If ¯ is the average frequency of an allele in the total population, is the variance in the frequency of the allele among different subpopulations, weighted by the sizes of the subpopulations, and is the variance of the allelic state in the total population, F ST is defined as [2]