A NOTE ON THE VARIANCE OF THE NUMBER OF LOCI HAVING A GIVEN GENE FREQUENCY

1 Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19174
2 National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan 411

In a recent note in this journal (Maruyama 1973), one of us has considered, for a certain genetic model, the variance of the distribution of the number of loci having a given gene frequency. The formula given is incorrect. This brief note considers this problem and notes the correct solution in one particular case.

Submitted on May 20, 1974
Revised on November 7, 1974