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Proportion shared alleles - equation and matrix need correction.
Up to Week 8: Distance-based methods
Proportion shared alleles - equation and matrix need correction.
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Melanie Murphy
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March 03. 2009
The D in the equation for proportion of shared alleles is the number of loci and not number of alleles. This is especially important for markers (such as microsatellites) where loci are the unit of observation, and not alleles. Also the matrix should be filled with frequency of the allele in the individual (0, .5, or 1) and not count (0, 1, 2).