ON NEI AND ROYCHOUDHURY'S SAMPLING VARIANCES OF HETEROZYGOSITY AND GENETIC DISTANCE

1 Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Nei and Roychoudhury have developed an inequality relationship between the expected values of (jx- g)2 and (gcirc-g)2 where jx is a biased and gcirc is an unbiased estimate of population homozygosity g. Their inequality is somewhat weak and can be improved, as is demonstrated in this paper.

Submitted on August 9, 1974