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Basic Principles of Population Genetics

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In this chapter we briefly review some elementary results from population genetics discussed in more detail in the references [2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 13]. Various genetic definitions are recalled merely to provide a context for this and more advanced mathematical theory. Readers with a limited knowledge of modern genetics are urged to learn molecular genetics by formal course work or informal self-study. Appendix A summarizes a few of the major currents in molecular genetics. In Chapter 15, we resume our study of population genetics from a stochastic perspective by exploiting the machinery of diffusion processes.

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(2003). Basic Principles of Population Genetics. In: Applied Probability. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-22711-5_1

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