Coefficient of relationship
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In population genetics, Sewall Wright's coefficient of relationship or relatedness is the probability that at a random locus, the alleles there will be identical by descent.
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- Sewall Wright, (1922). Coefficients of inbreeding and relationship. American Naturalist 56:330-338
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Topics in population genetics
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| Key concepts: Hardy-Weinberg law | genetic linkage | linkage disequilibrium | Fisher's fundamental theorem | neutral theory |
| Selection: natural | sexual | artificial | ecological |
| Effects of selection on genomic variation: genetic hitchhiking | background selection |
| Genetic drift: small population size | population bottleneck | founder effect | coalescence |
| Founders: R.A. Fisher | J. B. S. Haldane | Sewall Wright |
| Related topics: evolution | microevolution | evolutionary game theory | fitness landscape | genetic genealogy |
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