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Nucleotide diversityNucleotide diversity is a concept in molecular genetics which is used to measure the degree of polymorphism within a population. It was first introduced by Nei and Li in 1979. Additional recommended knowledgeIt is defined as the average number of nucleotide differences per site between any two DNA sequences chosen randomly from the sample population, and is denoted by Π. It is given by the formula:
in which πij is the proportion of different nucleotides between the ith and jth types of DNA sequences, and xi andxj are the respective frequencies of these sequences. The summation is taken over all distinct pairs i,j, without repetition. That is:
where n is the number of sequences in the sample. |
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