Genetics in geographically structured populations: defining, estimating and interpreting FST
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Estimating and interpreting FST: the impact of rare variants.
In a pair of seminal papers, Sewall Wright and Gustave Malécot introduced FST as a measure of structure in natural populations. In the decades that followed, a number of papers provided differing definitions, estimation methods, and interpretations beyond Wright's. While this diversity in methods has enabled many studies in genetics, it has also introduced confusion regarding how to estimate FS...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Genetics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1471-0056,1471-0064
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2611