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136-654: In population genetics , the Hardy–Weinberg principle , also known as the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium , model , theorem , or law , states that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences. These influences include genetic drift , mate choice , assortative mating , natural selection , sexual selection , mutation , gene flow , meiotic drive , genetic hitchhiking , population bottleneck , founder effect , inbreeding and outbreeding depression . In

272-622: A 1 i p ^ i = b 1 , ∑ i a 2 i p ^ i = b 2 , ⋯ , ∑ i a ℓ i p ^ i = b ℓ {\displaystyle {\begin{cases}\sum _{i}{\hat {p}}_{i}=1,\\\sum _{i}a_{1i}{\hat {p}}_{i}=b_{1},\\\sum _{i}a_{2i}{\hat {p}}_{i}=b_{2},\\\cdots ,\\\sum _{i}a_{\ell i}{\hat {p}}_{i}=b_{\ell }\end{cases}}} (notice that

408-537: A simplex with a grid. Similarly, just like one can interpret the binomial distribution as the polynomial coefficients of ( p + q ) n {\displaystyle (p+q)^{n}} when expanded, one can interpret the multinomial distribution as the coefficients of ( p 1 + p 2 + p 3 + ⋯ + p k ) n {\displaystyle (p_{1}+p_{2}+p_{3}+\cdots +p_{k})^{n}} when expanded, noting that just

544-535: A 1-bp deletion), of genes or proteins (e.g., a null mutation, a loss-of-function mutation), or at a higher phenotypic level (e.g., red-eye mutation). Single-nucleotide changes are frequently the most common type of mutation, but many other types of mutation are possible, and they occur at widely varying rates that may show systematic asymmetries or biases ( mutation bias ). Mutations can involve large sections of DNA becoming duplicated , usually through genetic recombination . This leads to copy-number variation within

680-466: A bag, replacing the extracted balls after each draw. Balls of the same color are equivalent. Denote the variable which is the number of extracted balls of color i ( i = 1, ..., k ) as X i , and denote as p i the probability that a given extraction will be in color i . The probability mass function of this multinomial distribution is: for non-negative integers x 1 , ..., x k . The probability mass function can be expressed using

816-423: A camouflage strategy following increased pollution. The American biologist Sewall Wright , who had a background in animal breeding experiments, focused on combinations of interacting genes, and the effects of inbreeding on small, relatively isolated populations that exhibited genetic drift. In 1932 Wright introduced the concept of an adaptive landscape and argued that genetic drift and inbreeding could drive

952-429: A categorical distribution is equivalent to a multinomial distribution over a single trial. The goal of equivalence testing is to establish the agreement between a theoretical multinomial distribution and observed counting frequencies. The theoretical distribution may be a fully specified multinomial distribution or a parametric family of multinomial distributions. Let q {\displaystyle q} denote

1088-425: A discrete probability distribution to a continuous probability density, we need to multiply by the volume occupied by each point of Δ k , n {\displaystyle \Delta _{k,n}} in Δ k {\displaystyle \Delta _{k}} . However, by symmetry, every point occupies exactly the same volume (except a negligible set on the boundary), so we obtain

1224-413: A fixed sample size . The multinomial distribution is normalized according to: where the sum is over all permutations of x j {\displaystyle x_{j}} such that ∑ j = 1 k x j = n {\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^{k}x_{j}=n} . The expected number of times the outcome i was observed over n trials

1360-449: A form of Fisher's exact test , which requires a computer to solve. More recently a number of MCMC methods of testing for deviations from HWP have been proposed (Guo & Thompson, 1992; Wigginton et al. 2005) This data is from E. B. Ford (1971) on the scarlet tiger moth , for which the phenotypes of a sample of the population were recorded. Genotype–phenotype distinction is assumed to be negligibly small. The null hypothesis

1496-532: A function of allele frequencies. For example, in the simplest case of a single locus with two alleles denoted A and a at frequencies p and q , random mating predicts freq( AA ) =  p for the AA homozygotes , freq( aa ) =  q for the aa homozygotes, and freq( Aa ) = 2 pq for the heterozygotes . In the absence of population structure, Hardy-Weinberg proportions are reached within 1–2 generations of random mating. More typically, there

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1632-452: A genome-wide estimate of the proportion of substitutions that are fixed by positive selection, α. According to the neutral theory of molecular evolution , this number should be near zero. High numbers have therefore been interpreted as a genome-wide falsification of neutral theory. The simplest test for population structure in a sexually reproducing, diploid species, is to see whether genotype frequencies follow Hardy-Weinberg proportions as

1768-438: A matrix with i, j element cov ⁡ ( X i , X j ) , {\displaystyle \operatorname {cov} (X_{i},X_{j}),} the result is a k × k positive-semidefinite covariance matrix of rank k  − 1. In the special case where k  =  n and where the p i are all equal, the covariance matrix is the centering matrix . The entries of

1904-416: A multinomial distribution when a categorical distribution is actually meant. This stems from the fact that it is sometimes convenient to express the outcome of a categorical distribution as a "1-of-k" vector (a vector with one element containing a 1 and all other elements containing a 0) rather than as an integer in the range 1 … k {\displaystyle 1\dots k} ; in this form,

2040-463: A mutation changes a protein produced by a gene, this will probably be harmful, with about 70 percent of these mutations having damaging effects, and the remainder being either neutral or weakly beneficial. This biological process of mutation is represented in population-genetic models in one of two ways, either as a deterministic pressure of recurrent mutation on allele frequencies, or a source of variation. In deterministic theory, evolution begins with

2176-407: A new beneficial mutation before the last one has fixed . Neutral theory predicts that the level of nucleotide diversity in a population will be proportional to the product of the population size and the neutral mutation rate. The fact that levels of genetic diversity vary much less than population sizes do is known as the "paradox of variation". While high levels of genetic diversity were one of

2312-517: A population is brought together with males and females with a different allele frequency in each subpopulation (males or females), the allele frequency of the male population in the next generation will follow that of the female population because each son receives its X chromosome from its mother. The population converges on equilibrium very quickly. The simple derivation above can be generalized for more than two alleles and polyploidy . Consider an extra allele frequency,  r . The two-allele case

2448-537: A population of monoecious diploids , where each organism produces male and female gametes at equal frequency, and has two alleles at each gene locus. We assume that the population is so large that it can be treated as infinite. Organisms reproduce by random union of gametes (the "gene pool" population model). A locus in this population has two alleles, A and a, that occur with initial frequencies f 0 (A) = p and f 0 (a) = q , respectively. The allele frequencies at each generation are obtained by pooling together

2584-461: A population to isolation leads to inbreeding depression . Migration into a population can introduce new genetic variants, potentially contributing to evolutionary rescue . If a significant proportion of individuals or gametes migrate, it can also change allele frequencies, e.g. giving rise to migration load . In the presence of gene flow, other barriers to hybridization between two diverging populations of an outcrossing species are required for

2720-420: A population violates one of the following four assumptions, the population may continue to have Hardy–Weinberg proportions each generation, but the allele frequencies will change over time. In real world genotype data, deviations from Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium may be a sign of genotyping error. Where the A gene is sex linked , the heterogametic sex ( e.g. , mammalian males; avian females) have only one copy of

2856-405: A population. Duplications are a major source of raw material for evolving new genes. Other types of mutation occasionally create new genes from previously noncoding DNA. In the distribution of fitness effects (DFE) for new mutations, only a minority of mutations are beneficial. Mutations with gross effects are typically deleterious. Studies in the fly Drosophila melanogaster suggest that if

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2992-585: A possible cause for the loss of unused traits. For example, pigments are no longer useful when animals live in the darkness of caves, and tend to be lost. An experimental example involves the loss of sporulation in experimental populations of B. subtilis . Sporulation is a complex trait encoded by many loci, such that the mutation rate for loss of the trait was estimated as an unusually high value, μ = 0.003 {\displaystyle \mu =0.003} . Loss of sporulation in this case can occur by recurrent mutation, without requiring selection for

3128-418: A predetermined set of alleles and proceeds by shifts in continuous frequencies, as if the population is infinite. The occurrence of mutations in individuals is represented by a population-level "force" or "pressure" of mutation, i.e., the force of innumerable events of mutation with a scaled magnitude u applied to shifting frequencies f(A1) to f(A2). For instance, in the classic mutation–selection balance model,

3264-456: A probability density ρ ( p ^ ) = C e − n 2 ∑ i ( p ^ i − p i ) 2 p i {\displaystyle \rho ({\hat {p}})=Ce^{-{\frac {n}{2}}\sum _{i}{\frac {({\hat {p}}_{i}-p_{i})^{2}}{p_{i}}}}} , where C {\displaystyle C}

3400-416: A rate-dependent process of mutational introduction or origination, i.e., a process that introduces new alleles including neutral and beneficial ones, then the properties of mutation may have a more direct impact on the rate and direction of evolution, even if the rate of mutation is very low. That is, the spectrum of mutation may become very important, particularly mutation biases , predictable differences in

3536-514: A rational number, whereas p 1 , p 2 , . . . , p k {\displaystyle p_{1},p_{2},...,p_{k}} may be chosen from any real number in [ 0 , 1 ] {\displaystyle [0,1]} and need not satisfy the Diophantine system of equations. Only asymptotically as n → ∞ {\displaystyle n\rightarrow \infty } ,

3672-479: A sample to demographic history of the population from which it was taken. It normally assumes neutrality , and so sequences from more neutrally evolving portions of genomes are therefore selected for such analyses. It can be used to infer the relationships between species ( phylogenetics ), as well as the population structure, demographic history (e.g. population bottlenecks , population growth ), biological dispersal , source–sink dynamics and introgression within

3808-543: A single locus, but on a phenotype that arises through development from a complete genotype. However, many population genetics models of sexual species are "single locus" models, where the fitness of an individual is calculated as the product of the contributions from each of its loci—effectively assuming no epistasis. In fact, the genotype to fitness landscape is more complex. Population genetics must either model this complexity in detail, or capture it by some simpler average rule. Empirically, beneficial mutations tend to have

3944-438: A small, isolated sub-population away from an adaptive peak, allowing natural selection to drive it towards different adaptive peaks. The work of Fisher, Haldane and Wright founded the discipline of population genetics. This integrated natural selection with Mendelian genetics, which was the critical first step in developing a unified theory of how evolution worked. John Maynard Smith was Haldane's pupil, whilst W. D. Hamilton

4080-470: A smaller fitness benefit when added to a genetic background that already has high fitness: this is known as diminishing returns epistasis. When deleterious mutations also have a smaller fitness effect on high fitness backgrounds, this is known as "synergistic epistasis". However, the effect of deleterious mutations tends on average to be very close to multiplicative, or can even show the opposite pattern, known as "antagonistic epistasis". Synergistic epistasis

4216-427: A species. Another approach to demographic inference relies on the allele frequency spectrum . By assuming that there are loci that control the genetic system itself, population genetic models are created to describe the evolution of dominance and other forms of robustness , the evolution of sexual reproduction and recombination rates, the evolution of mutation rates , the evolution of evolutionary capacitors ,

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4352-449: A theoretical multinomial distribution and let p {\displaystyle p} be a true underlying distribution. The distributions p {\displaystyle p} and q {\displaystyle q} are considered equivalent if d ( p , q ) < ε {\displaystyle d(p,q)<\varepsilon } for a distance d {\displaystyle d} and

4488-535: A tolerance parameter ε > 0 {\displaystyle \varepsilon >0} . The equivalence test problem is H 0 = { d ( p , q ) ≥ ε } {\displaystyle H_{0}=\{d(p,q)\geq \varepsilon \}} versus H 1 = { d ( p , q ) < ε } {\displaystyle H_{1}=\{d(p,q)<\varepsilon \}} . The true underlying distribution p {\displaystyle p}

4624-411: Is The covariance matrix is as follows. Each diagonal entry is the variance of a binomially distributed random variable, and is therefore The off-diagonal entries are the covariances : for i , j distinct. All covariances are negative because for fixed n , an increase in one component of a multinomial vector requires a decrease in another component. When these expressions are combined into

4760-499: Is linked to an allele under selection at a nearby locus. Linkage also slows down the rate of adaptation, even in sexual populations. The effect of linkage disequilibrium in slowing down the rate of adaptive evolution arises from a combination of the Hill–Robertson effect (delays in bringing beneficial mutations together) and background selection (delays in separating beneficial mutations from deleterious hitchhikers ). Linkage

4896-477: Is 0.007. As is typical for Fisher's exact test for small samples, the gradation of significance levels is quite coarse. However, a table like this has to be created for every experiment, since the tables are dependent on both n and p . The equivalence tests are developed in order to establish sufficiently good agreement of the observed genotype frequencies and Hardy Weinberg equilibrium. Let M {\displaystyle {\mathcal {M}}} denote

5032-488: Is 3.84, and since the χ value is less than this, the null hypothesis that the population is in Hardy–Weinberg frequencies is not rejected. Fisher's exact test can be applied to testing for Hardy–Weinberg proportions. Since the test is conditional on the allele frequencies, p and q , the problem can be viewed as testing for the proper number of heterozygotes. In this way, the hypothesis of Hardy–Weinberg proportions

5168-424: Is a constant. Finally, since the simplex Δ k {\displaystyle \Delta _{k}} is not all of R k {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{k}} , but only within a ( k − 1 ) {\displaystyle (k-1)} -dimensional plane, we obtain the desired result. The above concentration phenomenon can be easily generalized to

5304-606: Is a more important stochastic force, doing the work traditionally ascribed to genetic drift by means of sampling error. The mathematical properties of genetic draft are different from those of genetic drift. The direction of the random change in allele frequency is autocorrelated across generations. Because of physical barriers to migration, along with the limited tendency for individuals to move or spread ( vagility ), and tendency to remain or come back to natal place ( philopatry ), natural populations rarely all interbreed as may be assumed in theoretical random models ( panmixy ). There

5440-547: Is a problem for population genetic models that treat one gene locus at a time. It can, however, be exploited as a method for detecting the action of natural selection via selective sweeps . In the extreme case of an asexual population , linkage is complete, and population genetic equations can be derived and solved in terms of a travelling wave of genotype frequencies along a simple fitness landscape . Most microbes , such as bacteria , are asexual. The population genetics of their adaptation have two contrasting regimes. When

5576-601: Is a tolerance parameter. If the hypothesis H 0 {\displaystyle H_{0}} can be rejected then the population is close to Hardy Weinberg equilibrium with a high probability. The equivalence tests for the biallelic case are developed among others in Wellek (2004). The equivalence tests for the case of multiple alleles are proposed in Ostrovski (2020). The inbreeding coefficient, F {\displaystyle F} (see also F -statistics ),

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5712-547: Is an excess of homozygotes, indicative of population structure. The extent of this excess can be quantified as the inbreeding coefficient, F . Individuals can be clustered into K subpopulations. The degree of population structure can then be calculated using F ST , which is a measure of the proportion of genetic variance that can be explained by population structure. Genetic population structure can then be related to geographic structure, and genetic admixture can be detected. Coalescent theory relates genetic diversity in

5848-409: Is central to some theories of the purging of mutation load and to the evolution of sexual reproduction . The genetic process of mutation takes place within an individual, resulting in heritable changes to the genetic material. This process is often characterized by a description of the starting and ending states, or the kind of change that has happened at the level of DNA (e.g,. a T-to-C mutation,

5984-422: Is driven by which mutations occur, and so cannot be captured by models of change in the frequency of (existing) alleles alone. The origin-fixation view of population genetics generalizes this approach beyond strictly neutral mutations, and sees the rate at which a particular change happens as the product of the mutation rate and the fixation probability . Natural selection , which includes sexual selection ,

6120-431: Is enough genetic variation in a population. Before the discovery of Mendelian genetics , one common hypothesis was blending inheritance . But with blending inheritance, genetic variance would be rapidly lost, making evolution by natural or sexual selection implausible. The Hardy–Weinberg principle provides the solution to how variation is maintained in a population with Mendelian inheritance. According to this principle,

6256-415: Is greater than 1 divided by the effective population size . When this criterion is met, the probability that a new advantageous mutant becomes fixed is approximately equal to 2s . The time until fixation of such an allele is approximately ( 2 l o g ( s N ) + γ ) / s {\displaystyle (2log(sN)+\gamma )/s} . Dominance means that

6392-437: Is its emphasis on such genetic phenomena as dominance , epistasis , the degree to which genetic recombination breaks linkage disequilibrium , and the random phenomena of mutation and genetic drift . This makes it appropriate for comparison to population genomics data. Population genetics began as a reconciliation of Mendelian inheritance and biostatistics models. Natural selection will only cause evolution if there

6528-583: Is larger for alleles present in few copies than when an allele is present in many copies. The population genetics of genetic drift are described using either branching processes or a diffusion equation describing changes in allele frequency. These approaches are usually applied to the Wright-Fisher and Moran models of population genetics. Assuming genetic drift is the only evolutionary force acting on an allele, after t generations in many replicated populations, starting with allele frequencies of p and q,

6664-435: Is one minus the observed frequency of heterozygotes over that expected from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. where the expected value from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium is given by For example, for Ford's data above: For two alleles, the chi-squared goodness of fit test for Hardy–Weinberg proportions is equivalent to the test for inbreeding,  F = 0 {\displaystyle F=0} . The inbreeding coefficient

6800-526: Is proposed in Frey (2009). The distance between the true underlying distribution p {\displaystyle p} and a family of the multinomial distributions M {\displaystyle {\mathcal {M}}} is defined by d ( p , M ) = min h ∈ M d ( p , h ) {\displaystyle d(p,{\mathcal {M}})=\min _{h\in {\mathcal {M}}}d(p,h)} . Then

6936-473: Is reached. The principle is named after G. H. Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg , who first demonstrated it mathematically. Hardy's paper was focused on debunking the view that a dominant allele would automatically tend to increase in frequency (a view possibly based on a misinterpreted question at a lecture). Today, tests for Hardy–Weinberg genotype frequencies are used primarily to test for population stratification and other forms of non-random mating. Consider

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7072-558: Is rejected if the number of heterozygotes is too large or too small. The conditional probabilities for the heterozygote, given the allele frequencies are given in Emigh (1980) as where n 11 , n 12 , n 22 are the observed numbers of the three genotypes, AA, Aa, and aa, respectively, and n 1 is the number of A alleles, where n 1 = 2 n 11 + n 12 {\displaystyle n_{1}=2n_{11}+n_{12}} . An example Using one of

7208-659: Is restricted to a ( k − ℓ − 1 ) {\displaystyle (k-\ell -1)} -dimensional plane. In particular, expanding the KL divergence D K L ( p ^ | | p ) {\displaystyle D_{KL}({\hat {p}}\vert \vert p)} around its minimum q {\displaystyle q} (the I {\displaystyle I} -projection of p {\displaystyle p} on Δ k , n {\displaystyle \Delta _{k,n}} ) in

7344-505: Is some distance. The equivalence test problem is given by H 0 = { d ( p , M ) ≥ ε } {\displaystyle H_{0}=\{d(p,{\mathcal {M}})\geq \varepsilon \}} and H 1 = { d ( p , M ) < ε } {\displaystyle H_{1}=\{d(p,{\mathcal {M}})<\varepsilon \}} , where ε > 0 {\displaystyle \varepsilon >0}

7480-474: Is that the population is in Hardy–Weinberg proportions, and the alternative hypothesis is that the population is not in Hardy–Weinberg proportions. From this, allele frequencies can be calculated: and So the Hardy–Weinberg expectation is: Pearson's chi-squared test states: There is 1 degree of freedom (degrees of freedom for test for Hardy–Weinberg proportions are # genotypes − # alleles). The 5% significance level for 1 degree of freedom

7616-538: Is the binomial expansion of ( p  +  q ), and thus the three-allele case is the trinomial expansion of ( p  +  q  +  r ). More generally, consider the alleles A 1 , ..., A n given by the allele frequencies p 1 to p n ; giving for all homozygotes : and for all heterozygotes : The Hardy–Weinberg principle may also be generalized to polyploid systems, that is, for organisms that have more than two copies of each chromosome. Consider again only two alleles. The diploid case

7752-448: Is the binomial expansion of: and therefore the polyploid case is the binomial expansion of: where c is the ploidy , for example with tetraploid ( c = 4): Whether the organism is a 'true' tetraploid or an amphidiploid will determine how long it will take for the population to reach Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. For n {\displaystyle n} distinct alleles in c {\displaystyle c} -ploids,

7888-472: Is the fact that some traits make it more likely for an organism to survive and reproduce . Population genetics describes natural selection by defining fitness as a propensity or probability of survival and reproduction in a particular environment. The fitness is normally given by the symbol w =1- s where s is the selection coefficient . Natural selection acts on phenotypes , so population genetic models assume relatively simple relationships to predict

8024-494: Is the intersection between Δ k {\displaystyle \Delta _{k}} and the lattice ( Z k ) / n {\displaystyle (\mathbb {Z} ^{k})/n} . As n {\displaystyle n} increases, most of the probability mass is concentrated in a subset of Δ k , n {\displaystyle \Delta _{k,n}} near p {\displaystyle p} , and

8160-440: Is the intersection of ( Z k ) / n {\displaystyle (\mathbb {Z} ^{k})/n} with Δ k {\displaystyle \Delta _{k}} and ℓ {\displaystyle \ell } hyperplanes, all linearly independent, so the probability density ρ ( p ^ ) {\displaystyle \rho ({\hat {p}})}

8296-625: Is to look for regions of high linkage disequilibrium and low genetic variance along the chromosome, to detect recent selective sweeps . A second common approach is the McDonald–Kreitman test which compares the amount of variation within a species ( polymorphism ) to the divergence between species (substitutions) at two types of sites; one assumed to be neutral. Typically, synonymous sites are assumed to be neutral. Genes undergoing positive selection have an excess of divergent sites relative to polymorphic sites. The test can also be used to obtain

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8432-441: Is unknown. Instead, the counting frequencies p n {\displaystyle p_{n}} are observed, where n {\displaystyle n} is a sample size. An equivalence test uses p n {\displaystyle p_{n}} to reject H 0 {\displaystyle H_{0}} . If H 0 {\displaystyle H_{0}} can be rejected then

8568-530: Is unstable as the expected value approaches zero, and thus not useful for rare and very common alleles. For: F | E = 0 , O = 0 = − ∞ {\displaystyle F{\big |}_{E=0,O=0}=-\infty } ; F | E = 0 , O > 0 {\displaystyle F{\big |}_{E=0,O>0}} is undefined. Mendelian genetics were rediscovered in 1900. However, it remained somewhat controversial for several years as it

8704-484: Is usually a geographic range within which individuals are more closely related to one another than those randomly selected from the general population. This is described as the extent to which a population is genetically structured. Genetic structuring can be caused by migration due to historical climate change , species range expansion or current availability of habitat . Gene flow is hindered by mountain ranges, oceans and deserts or even human-made structures such as

8840-419: The p ^ i {\displaystyle {\hat {p}}_{i}} 's can be regarded as probabilities over [ 0 , 1 ] {\displaystyle [0,1]} . Away from empirically observed constraints b 1 , … , b ℓ {\displaystyle b_{1},\ldots ,b_{\ell }} (such as moments or prevalences)

8976-627: The Great Wall of China , which has hindered the flow of plant genes. Gene flow is the exchange of genes between populations or species, breaking down the structure. Examples of gene flow within a species include the migration and then breeding of organisms, or the exchange of pollen . Gene transfer between species includes the formation of hybrid organisms and horizontal gene transfer . Population genetic models can be used to identify which populations show significant genetic isolation from one another, and to reconstruct their history. Subjecting

9112-480: The chi-squared distribution χ 2 ( k − 1 − ℓ ) {\displaystyle \chi ^{2}(k-1-\ell )} . An analogous proof applies in this Diophantine problem of coupled linear equations in count variables n p ^ i {\displaystyle n{\hat {p}}_{i}} , but this time Δ k , n {\displaystyle \Delta _{k,n}}

9248-728: The chi-squared distribution χ 2 ( k − 1 ) {\displaystyle \chi ^{2}(k-1)} . The space of all distributions over categories { 1 , 2 , … , k } {\displaystyle \{1,2,\ldots ,k\}} is a simplex : Δ k = { ( y 1 , … , y k ) : y 1 , … , y k ≥ 0 , ∑ i y i = 1 } {\displaystyle \Delta _{k}=\left\{(y_{1},\ldots ,y_{k})\colon y_{1},\ldots ,y_{k}\geq 0,\sum _{i}y_{i}=1\right\}} , and

9384-551: The gamma function as: This form shows its resemblance to the Dirichlet distribution , which is its conjugate prior . Suppose that in a three-way election for a large country, candidate A received 20% of the votes, candidate B received 30% of the votes, and candidate C received 50% of the votes. If six voters are selected randomly, what is the probability that there will be exactly one supporter for candidate A, two supporters for candidate B and three supporters for candidate C in

9520-431: The heterogametic sex 'chases' f (a) in the homogametic sex of the previous generation, until an equilibrium is reached at the weighted average of the two initial frequencies. The seven assumptions underlying Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium are as follows: Violations of the Hardy–Weinberg assumptions can cause deviations from expectation. How this affects the population depends on the assumptions that are violated. If

9656-450: The multinomial distribution is a generalization of the binomial distribution . For example, it models the probability of counts for each side of a k -sided dice rolled n times. For n independent trials each of which leads to a success for exactly one of k categories, with each category having a given fixed success probability, the multinomial distribution gives the probability of any particular combination of numbers of successes for

9792-418: The Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. It should be mentioned that the genotype frequencies after the first generation need not equal the genotype frequencies from the initial generation, e.g. f 1 (AA) ≠ f 0 (AA) . However, the genotype frequencies for all future times will equal the Hardy–Weinberg frequencies, e.g. f t (AA) = f 1 (AA) for t > 1 . This follows since the genotype frequencies of

9928-642: The ability to maintain genetic diversity through genetic polymorphisms such as human blood types . Ford's work, in collaboration with Fisher, contributed to a shift in emphasis during the modern synthesis towards natural selection as the dominant force. The original, modern synthesis view of population genetics assumes that mutations provide ample raw material, and focuses only on the change in frequency of alleles within populations . The main processes influencing allele frequencies are natural selection , genetic drift , gene flow and recurrent mutation . Fisher and Wright had some fundamental disagreements about

10064-412: The allele or genotype proportions are initially unequal in either sex, it can be shown that constant proportions are obtained after one generation of random mating. If dioecious organisms are heterogametic and the gene locus is located on the X chromosome , it can be shown that if the allele frequencies are initially unequal in the two sexes [ e.g ., XX females and XY males, as in humans], f ′(a) in

10200-421: The alleles from each genotype of the same generation according to the expected contribution from the homozygote and heterozygote genotypes, which are 1 and 1/2, respectively: The different ways to form genotypes for the next generation can be shown in a Punnett square , where the proportion of each genotype is equal to the product of the row and column allele frequencies from the current generation. The sum of

10336-493: The alleles in the offspring are a random sample of those in the parents. Genetic drift may cause gene variants to disappear completely, and thereby reduce genetic variability. In contrast to natural selection, which makes gene variants more common or less common depending on their reproductive success, the changes due to genetic drift are not driven by environmental or adaptive pressures, and are equally likely to make an allele more common as less common. The effect of genetic drift

10472-569: The ancestors of eukaryotic cells and prokaryotes, during the acquisition of chloroplasts and mitochondria . If all genes are in linkage equilibrium , the effect of an allele at one locus can be averaged across the gene pool at other loci. In reality, one allele is frequently found in linkage disequilibrium with genes at other loci, especially with genes located nearby on the same chromosome. Recombination breaks up this linkage disequilibrium too slowly to avoid genetic hitchhiking , where an allele at one locus rises to high frequency because it

10608-437: The asymptotic formula, the probability that empirical distribution p ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {p}}} deviates from the actual distribution p {\displaystyle p} decays exponentially, at a rate n D K L ( p ^ ‖ p ) {\displaystyle nD_{KL}({\hat {p}}\|p)} . The more experiments and

10744-655: The biometricians could be produced by the combined action of many discrete genes, and that natural selection could change allele frequencies in a population, resulting in evolution. In a series of papers beginning in 1924, another British geneticist, J. B. S. Haldane , worked out the mathematics of allele frequency change at a single gene locus under a broad range of conditions. Haldane also applied statistical analysis to real-world examples of natural selection, such as peppered moth evolution and industrial melanism , and showed that selection coefficients could be larger than Fisher assumed, leading to more rapid adaptive evolution as

10880-587: The case where we condition upon linear constraints. This is the theoretical justification for Pearson's chi-squared test . Theorem. Given frequencies x i ∈ N {\displaystyle x_{i}\in \mathbb {N} } observed in a dataset with n {\displaystyle n} points, we impose ℓ + 1 {\displaystyle \ell +1} independent linear constraints { ∑ i p ^ i = 1 , ∑ i

11016-1238: The coefficients must sum up to 1. By Stirling's formula , at the limit of n , x 1 , . . . , x k → ∞ {\displaystyle n,x_{1},...,x_{k}\to \infty } , we have ln ⁡ ( n x 1 , ⋯ , x k ) + ∑ i = 1 k x i ln ⁡ p i = − n D K L ( p ^ ‖ p ) − k − 1 2 ln ⁡ ( 2 π n ) − 1 2 ∑ i = 1 k ln ⁡ ( p ^ i ) + o ( 1 ) {\displaystyle \ln {\binom {n}{x_{1},\cdots ,x_{k}}}+\sum _{i=1}^{k}x_{i}\ln p_{i}=-nD_{KL}({\hat {p}}\|p)-{\frac {k-1}{2}}\ln(2\pi n)-{\frac {1}{2}}\sum _{i=1}^{k}\ln({\hat {p}}_{i})+o(1)} where relative frequencies p ^ i = x i / n {\displaystyle {\hat {p}}_{i}=x_{i}/n} in

11152-470: The column vector p . Just like one can interpret the binomial distribution as (normalized) one-dimensional (1D) slices of Pascal's triangle , so too can one interpret the multinomial distribution as 2D (triangular) slices of Pascal's pyramid , or 3D/4D/+ (pyramid-shaped) slices of higher-dimensional analogs of Pascal's triangle. This reveals an interpretation of the range of the distribution: discretized equilateral "pyramids" in arbitrary dimension—i.e.

11288-443: The combination of population structure and genetic drift was important. Motoo Kimura 's neutral theory of molecular evolution claims that most genetic differences within and between populations are caused by the combination of neutral mutations and genetic drift. The role of genetic drift by means of sampling error in evolution has been criticized by John H Gillespie and Will Provine , who argue that selection on linked sites

11424-712: The constrained problem ensures by the Pythagorean theorem for I {\displaystyle I} -divergence that any constant and linear term in the counts n p ^ i {\displaystyle n{\hat {p}}_{i}} vanishes from the conditional probability to multinationally sample those counts. Notice that by definition, every one of p ^ 1 , p ^ 2 , . . . , p ^ k {\displaystyle {\hat {p}}_{1},{\hat {p}}_{2},...,{\hat {p}}_{k}} must be

11560-422: The corresponding correlation matrix are Note that the number of trials n drops out of this expression. Each of the k components separately has a binomial distribution with parameters n and p i , for the appropriate value of the subscript i . The support of the multinomial distribution is the set Its number of elements is In matrix notation, and with p = the row vector transpose of

11696-515: The data and the expected genotype frequencies obtained using the HWP. For systems where there are large numbers of alleles, this may result in data with many empty possible genotypes and low genotype counts, because there are often not enough individuals present in the sample to adequately represent all genotype classes. If this is the case, then the asymptotic assumption of the chi-squared distribution , will no longer hold, and it may be necessary to use

11832-461: The data can be interpreted as probabilities from the empirical distribution p ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {p}}} , and D K L {\displaystyle D_{KL}} is the Kullback–Leibler divergence . This formula can be interpreted as follows. Consider Δ k {\displaystyle \Delta _{k}} ,

11968-461: The entries is p + 2 pq + q = 1 , as the genotype frequencies must sum to one. Note again that as p + q = 1 , the binomial expansion of ( p + q ) = p + 2 pq + q = 1 gives the same relationships. Summing the elements of the Punnett square or the binomial expansion, we obtain the expected genotype proportions among the offspring after a single generation: These frequencies define

12104-401: The equivalence between p {\displaystyle p} and q {\displaystyle q} is shown at a given significance level. The equivalence test for Euclidean distance can be found in text book of Wellek (2010). The equivalence test for the total variation distance is developed in Ostrovski (2017). The exact equivalence test for the specific cumulative distance

12240-507: The equivalence test problem is given by H 0 = { d ( p , M ) ≥ ε } {\displaystyle H_{0}=\{d(p,{\mathcal {M}})\geq \varepsilon \}} and H 1 = { d ( p , M ) < ε } {\displaystyle H_{1}=\{d(p,{\mathcal {M}})<\varepsilon \}} . The distance d ( p , M ) {\displaystyle d(p,{\mathcal {M}})}

12376-442: The evolution of costly signalling traits , the evolution of ageing , and the evolution of co-operation . For example, most mutations are deleterious, so the optimal mutation rate for a species may be a trade-off between the damage from a high deleterious mutation rate and the metabolic costs of maintaining systems to reduce the mutation rate, such as DNA repair enzymes. Multinomial distribution In probability theory ,

12512-457: The examples from Emigh (1980), we can consider the case where n  = 100, and p  = 0.34. The possible observed heterozygotes and their exact significance level is given in Table 4. Using this table, one must look up the significance level of the test based on the observed number of heterozygotes. For example, if one observed 20 heterozygotes, the significance level for the test

12648-416: The expected genotype contributions of each such mating. Equivalently, one considers the six unique diploid-diploid combinations: and constructs a Punnett square for each, so as to calculate its contribution to the next generation's genotypes. These contributions are weighted according to the probability of each diploid-diploid combination, which follows a multinomial distribution with k = 3 . For example,

12784-1317: The exponential decay, at large n {\displaystyle n} , almost all the probability mass is concentrated in a small neighborhood of p {\displaystyle p} . In this small neighborhood, we can take the first nonzero term in the Taylor expansion of D K L {\displaystyle D_{KL}} , to obtain ln ⁡ ( n x 1 , ⋯ , x k ) p 1 x 1 ⋯ p k x k ≈ − n 2 ∑ i = 1 k ( p ^ i − p i ) 2 p i = − 1 2 ∑ i = 1 k ( x i − n p i ) 2 n p i {\displaystyle \ln {\binom {n}{x_{1},\cdots ,x_{k}}}p_{1}^{x_{1}}\cdots p_{k}^{x_{k}}\approx -{\frac {n}{2}}\sum _{i=1}^{k}{\frac {({\hat {p}}_{i}-p_{i})^{2}}{p_{i}}}=-{\frac {1}{2}}\sum _{i=1}^{k}{\frac {(x_{i}-np_{i})^{2}}{np_{i}}}} This resembles

12920-485: The family of the genotype distributions under the assumption of Hardy Weinberg equilibrium. The distance between a genotype distribution p {\displaystyle p} and Hardy Weinberg equilibrium is defined by d ( p , M ) = min q ∈ M d ( p , q ) {\displaystyle d(p,{\mathcal {M}})=\min _{q\in {\mathcal {M}}}d(p,q)} , where d {\displaystyle d}

13056-489: The first constraint is simply the requirement that the empirical distributions sum to one), such that empirical p ^ i = x i / n {\displaystyle {\hat {p}}_{i}=x_{i}/n} satisfy all these constraints simultaneously. Let q {\displaystyle q} denote the I {\displaystyle I} -projection of prior distribution p {\displaystyle p} on

13192-414: The force of mutation pressure pushes the frequency of an allele upward, and selection against its deleterious effects pushes the frequency downward, so that a balance is reached at equilibrium, given (in the simplest case) by f = u/s. This concept of mutation pressure is mostly useful for considering the implications of deleterious mutation, such as the mutation load and its implications for the evolution of

13328-486: The foundations for the related discipline of quantitative genetics . Traditionally a highly mathematical discipline, modern population genetics encompasses theoretical, laboratory, and field work. Population genetic models are used both for statistical inference from DNA sequence data and for proof/disproof of concept. What sets population genetics apart from newer, more phenotypic approaches to modelling evolution, such as evolutionary game theory and adaptive dynamics ,

13464-461: The frequencies of alleles (variations in a gene) will remain constant in the absence of selection, mutation, migration and genetic drift. The next key step was the work of the British biologist and statistician Ronald Fisher . In a series of papers starting in 1918 and culminating in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection , Fisher showed that the continuous variation measured by

13600-699: The gaussian distribution, which suggests the following theorem: Theorem. At the n → ∞ {\displaystyle n\to \infty } limit, n ∑ i = 1 k ( p ^ i − p i ) 2 p i = ∑ i = 1 k ( x i − n p i ) 2 n p i {\displaystyle n\sum _{i=1}^{k}{\frac {({\hat {p}}_{i}-p_{i})^{2}}{p_{i}}}=\sum _{i=1}^{k}{\frac {(x_{i}-np_{i})^{2}}{np_{i}}}} converges in distribution to

13736-539: The gene (and are termed hemizygous), while the homogametic sex ( e.g. , human females) have two copies. The genotype frequencies at equilibrium are p and q for the heterogametic sex but p , 2 pq and q for the homogametic sex. For example, in humans red–green colorblindness is an X-linked recessive trait. In western European males, the trait affects about 1 in 12, ( q  = 0.083) whereas it affects about 1 in 200 females (0.005, compared to q  = 0.007), very close to Hardy–Weinberg proportions. If

13872-416: The genotype frequencies in the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium are given by individual terms in the multinomial expansion of ( p 1 + ⋯ + p n ) c {\displaystyle (p_{1}+\cdots +p_{n})^{c}} : Testing deviation from the HWP is generally performed using Pearson's chi-squared test , using the observed genotype frequencies obtained from

14008-1014: The growth rate of P r ( p ^ ∈ A ϵ ) {\displaystyle Pr({\hat {p}}\in A_{\epsilon })} on each piece A ϵ {\displaystyle A_{\epsilon }} , we obtain Sanov's theorem , which states that lim n → ∞ 1 n ln ⁡ P r ( p ^ ∈ A ) = − inf p ^ ∈ A D K L ( p ^ ‖ p ) {\displaystyle \lim _{n\to \infty }{\frac {1}{n}}\ln Pr({\hat {p}}\in A)=-\inf _{{\hat {p}}\in A}D_{KL}({\hat {p}}\|p)} Due to

14144-443: The highly mathematical work of the population geneticists and put it into a more accessible form. Many more biologists were influenced by population genetics via Dobzhansky than were able to read the highly mathematical works in the original. In Great Britain E. B. Ford , the pioneer of ecological genetics , continued throughout the 1930s and 1940s to empirically demonstrate the power of selection due to ecological factors including

14280-415: The loss of sporulation ability. When there is no selection for loss of function, the speed at which loss evolves depends more on the mutation rate than it does on the effective population size , indicating that it is driven more by mutation than by genetic drift. The role of mutation as a source of novelty is different from these classical models of mutation pressure. When population-genetic models include

14416-420: The modern synthesis. For the first few decades of the 20th century, most field naturalists continued to believe that Lamarckism and orthogenesis provided the best explanation for the complexity they observed in the living world. During the modern synthesis, these ideas were purged, and only evolutionary causes that could be expressed in the mathematical framework of population genetics were retained. Consensus

14552-464: The more different p ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {p}}} is from p {\displaystyle p} , the less likely it is to see such an empirical distribution. If A {\displaystyle A} is a closed subset of Δ k {\displaystyle \Delta _{k}} , then by dividing up A {\displaystyle A} into pieces, and reasoning about

14688-436: The mutation rate. Transformation of populations by mutation pressure is unlikely. Haldane  argued that it would require high mutation rates unopposed by selection, and Kimura concluded even more pessimistically that even this was unlikely, as the process would take too long (see evolution by mutation pressure ). However, evolution by mutation pressure is possible under some circumstances and has long been suggested as

14824-487: The next generation depend only on the allele frequencies of the current generation which, as calculated by equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ), are preserved from the initial generation: For the more general case of dioecious diploids [organisms are either male or female] that reproduce by random mating of individuals, it is necessary to calculate the genotype frequencies from the nine possible matings between each parental genotype ( AA , Aa , and aa ) in either sex, weighted by

14960-873: The original arguments in favor of neutral theory, the paradox of variation has been one of the strongest arguments against neutral theory. It is clear that levels of genetic diversity vary greatly within a species as a function of local recombination rate, due to both genetic hitchhiking and background selection . Most current solutions to the paradox of variation invoke some level of selection at linked sites. For example, one analysis suggests that larger populations have more selective sweeps, which remove more neutral genetic diversity. A negative correlation between mutation rate and population size may also contribute. Life history affects genetic diversity more than population history does, e.g. r-strategists have more genetic diversity. Population genetics models are used to infer which genes are undergoing selection. One common approach

15096-572: The phenotype and hence fitness from the allele at one or a small number of loci. In this way, natural selection converts differences in the fitness of individuals with different phenotypes into changes in allele frequency in a population over successive generations. Before the advent of population genetics, many biologists doubted that small differences in fitness were sufficient to make a large difference to evolution. Population geneticists addressed this concern in part by comparing selection to genetic drift . Selection can overcome genetic drift when s

15232-491: The phenotypic and/or fitness effect of one allele at a locus depends on which allele is present in the second copy for that locus. Consider three genotypes at one locus, with the following fitness values s is the selection coefficient and h is the dominance coefficient. The value of h yields the following information: Epistasis means that the phenotypic and/or fitness effect of an allele at one locus depends on which alleles are present at other loci. Selection does not act on

15368-469: The population geneticists and the patterns of macroevolution observed by field biologists, with his 1937 book Genetics and the Origin of Species . Dobzhansky examined the genetic diversity of wild populations and showed that, contrary to the assumptions of the population geneticists, these populations had large amounts of genetic diversity, with marked differences between sub-populations. The book also took

15504-442: The populations to become new species . Horizontal gene transfer is the transfer of genetic material from one organism to another organism that is not its offspring; this is most common among prokaryotes . In medicine, this contributes to the spread of antibiotic resistance , as when one bacteria acquires resistance genes it can rapidly transfer them to other species. Horizontal transfer of genes from bacteria to eukaryotes such as

15640-716: The probability distribution near p {\displaystyle p} becomes well-approximated by ( n x 1 , ⋯ , x k ) p 1 x 1 ⋯ p k x k ≈ e − n 2 ∑ i ( p ^ i − p i ) 2 p i {\displaystyle {\binom {n}{x_{1},\cdots ,x_{k}}}p_{1}^{x_{1}}\cdots p_{k}^{x_{k}}\approx e^{-{\frac {n}{2}}\sum _{i}{\frac {({\hat {p}}_{i}-p_{i})^{2}}{p_{i}}}}} From this, we see that

15776-585: The probability of the mating combination (AA,aa) is 2 f t (AA) f t (aa) and it can only result in the Aa genotype: [0,1,0] . Overall, the resulting genotype frequencies are calculated as: As before, one can show that the allele frequencies at time t + 1 equal those at time t , and so, are constant in time. Similarly, the genotype frequencies depend only on the allele frequencies, and so, after time t  = 1 are also constant in time. If in either monoecious or dioecious organisms, either

15912-519: The problem to G. H. Hardy , a British mathematician , with whom he played cricket . Hardy was a pure mathematician and held applied mathematics in some contempt; his view of biologists' use of mathematics comes across in his 1908 paper where he describes this as "very simple": Population genetics Population genetics was a vital ingredient in the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis . Its primary founders were Sewall Wright , J. B. S. Haldane and Ronald Fisher , who also laid

16048-415: The product of the beneficial mutation rate and population size is small, asexual populations follow a "successional regime" of origin-fixation dynamics, with adaptation rate strongly dependent on this product. When the product is much larger, asexual populations follow a "concurrent mutations" regime with adaptation rate less dependent on the product, characterized by clonal interference and the appearance of

16184-761: The random variables X i indicate the number of times outcome number i is observed over the n trials, the vector X  = ( X 1 , ...,  X k ) follows a multinomial distribution with parameters n and p , where p  = ( p 1 , ...,  p k ). While the trials are independent, their outcomes X i are dependent because they must be summed to n. n ∈ { 0 , 1 , 2 , … } {\displaystyle n\in \{0,1,2,\ldots \}} number of trials k > 0 {\displaystyle k>0} number of mutually exclusive events (integer) Suppose one does an experiment of extracting n balls of k different colors from

16320-452: The rates of occurrence for different types of mutations, because bias in the introduction of variation can impose biases on the course of evolution. Mutation plays a key role in other classical and recent theories including Muller's ratchet , subfunctionalization , Eigen's concept of an error catastrophe and Lynch's mutational hazard hypothesis . Genetic drift is a change in allele frequencies caused by random sampling . That is,

16456-402: The relative roles of selection and drift. The availability of molecular data on all genetic differences led to the neutral theory of molecular evolution . In this view, many mutations are deleterious and so never observed, and most of the remainder are neutral, i.e. are not under selection. With the fate of each neutral mutation left to chance (genetic drift), the direction of evolutionary change

16592-670: The same coin. The multinomial distribution models the outcome of n experiments, where the outcome of each trial has a categorical distribution , such as rolling a k -sided die n times. Let k be a fixed finite number. Mathematically, we have k possible mutually exclusive outcomes, with corresponding probabilities p 1 , ..., p k , and n independent trials. Since the k outcomes are mutually exclusive and one must occur we have p i  ≥ 0 for i  = 1, ...,  k and ∑ i = 1 k p i = 1 {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{k}p_{i}=1} . Then if

16728-413: The sample? Note: Since we’re assuming that the voting population is large, it is reasonable and permissible to think of the probabilities as unchanging once a voter is selected for the sample. Technically speaking this is sampling without replacement, so the correct distribution is the multivariate hypergeometric distribution , but the distributions converge as the population grows large in comparison to

16864-614: The set of all possible empirical distributions after n {\displaystyle n} experiments is a subset of the simplex: Δ k , n = { ( x 1 / n , … , x k / n ) : x 1 , … , x k ∈ N , ∑ i x i = n } {\displaystyle \Delta _{k,n}=\left\{(x_{1}/n,\ldots ,x_{k}/n)\colon x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k}\in \mathbb {N} ,\sum _{i}x_{i}=n\right\}} . That is, it

17000-531: The simplest case of a single locus with two alleles denoted A and a with frequencies f (A) = p and f (a) = q , respectively, the expected genotype frequencies under random mating are f (AA) = p for the AA homozygotes , f (aa) = q for the aa homozygotes, and f (Aa) = 2 pq for the heterozygotes . In the absence of selection, mutation, genetic drift, or other forces, allele frequencies p and q are constant between generations, so equilibrium

17136-519: The space of all possible distributions over the categories { 1 , 2 , . . . , k } {\displaystyle \{1,2,...,k\}} . It is a simplex . After n {\displaystyle n} independent samples from the categorical distribution p {\displaystyle p} (which is how we construct the multinomial distribution), we obtain an empirical distribution p ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {p}}} . By

17272-800: The sub-region of the simplex allowed by the linear constraints. At the n → ∞ {\displaystyle n\to \infty } limit, sampled counts n p ^ i {\displaystyle n{\hat {p}}_{i}} from the multinomial distribution conditional on the linear constraints are governed by 2 n D K L ( p ^ | | q ) ≈ n ∑ i ( p ^ i − q i ) 2 q i {\displaystyle 2nD_{KL}({\hat {p}}\vert \vert q)\approx n\sum _{i}{\frac {({\hat {p}}_{i}-q_{i})^{2}}{q_{i}}}} which converges in distribution to

17408-403: The subset upon which the mass is concentrated has radius on the order of 1 / n {\displaystyle 1/{\sqrt {n}}} , but the points in the subset are separated by distance on the order of 1 / n {\displaystyle 1/n} , so at large n {\displaystyle n} , the points merge into a continuum. To convert this from

17544-402: The suffix, and k the prefix). The Bernoulli distribution models the outcome of a single Bernoulli trial . In other words, it models whether flipping a (possibly biased ) coin one time will result in either a success (obtaining a head) or failure (obtaining a tail). The binomial distribution generalizes this to the number of heads from performing n independent flips (Bernoulli trials) of

17680-521: The theorem can be generalized: Theorem. In the case that all p ^ i {\displaystyle {\hat {p}}_{i}} are equal, the Theorem reduces to the concentration of entropies around the Maximum Entropy. In some fields such as natural language processing , categorical and multinomial distributions are synonymous and it is common to speak of

17816-455: The variance in allele frequency across those populations is Ronald Fisher held the view that genetic drift plays at the most a minor role in evolution, and this remained the dominant view for several decades. No population genetics perspective have ever given genetic drift a central role by itself, but some have made genetic drift important in combination with another non-selective force. The shifting balance theory of Sewall Wright held that

17952-457: The various categories. When k is 2 and n is 1, the multinomial distribution is the Bernoulli distribution . When k is 2 and n is bigger than 1, it is the binomial distribution . When k is bigger than 2 and n is 1, it is the categorical distribution . The term "multinoulli" is sometimes used for the categorical distribution to emphasize this four-way relationship (so n determines

18088-441: The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the adzuki bean beetle Callosobruchus chinensis may also have occurred. An example of larger-scale transfers are the eukaryotic bdelloid rotifers , which appear to have received a range of genes from bacteria, fungi, and plants. Viruses can also carry DNA between organisms, allowing transfer of genes even across biological domains . Large-scale gene transfer has also occurred between

18224-407: Was influenced by the writings of Fisher. The American George R. Price worked with both Hamilton and Maynard Smith. American Richard Lewontin and Japanese Motoo Kimura were influenced by Wright and Haldane. The mathematics of population genetics were originally developed as the beginning of the modern synthesis . Authors such as Beatty have asserted that population genetics defines the core of

18360-473: Was not then known how it could cause continuous characteristics. Udny Yule (1902) argued against Mendelism because he thought that dominant alleles would increase in the population. The American William E. Castle (1903) showed that without selection , the genotype frequencies would remain stable. Karl Pearson (1903) found one equilibrium position with values of p  =  q  = 0.5. Reginald Punnett , unable to counter Yule's point, introduced

18496-404: Was reached as to which evolutionary factors might influence evolution, but not as to the relative importance of the various factors. Theodosius Dobzhansky , a postdoctoral worker in T. H. Morgan 's lab, had been influenced by the work on genetic diversity by Russian geneticists such as Sergei Chetverikov . He helped to bridge the divide between the foundations of microevolution developed by

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