The great expansion of population genetic data using molecular techniques now allows examination of the extent of linkage disequilibrium for many pairs of loci, each locus often with multiple alleles.

The fitness of plants or animals within a population is largely determined by the number of offspring they produce. In natural populations lacking familial structure either one or both parents are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The finite-sample properties of various point estimators of a common odds ratio from multiple 2 x 2 tables have been considered in a number of ...