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Calculation of interpopulation genetic distances at different sample sizes

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A new method for comparison of interpopulation genetic distances is proposed. The method allows a more precise location of populations in the space of genetic characters relative to one another at considerably different sample sizes. The method consists in multiple reduction of the sample sizes to the size of the smallest sample followed by averaging the calculated genetic distances between the reduced samples. Software for calculation of genetic distances by this method is presented.

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  1. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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Original Russian Text © A.N. Evsyukov, I.Yu. Morozova, 2011, published in Genetika, 2011, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 986–990.

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Evsyukov, A.N., Morozova, I.Y. Calculation of interpopulation genetic distances at different sample sizes. Russ J Genet 47, 874–878 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795411070064

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