Heterozygosity

Wen‐Hsiung Li, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Published online: July 2006

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0005080

Heterozygosity is a commonly used measure of genetic variability in a population.

Keywords: genetic variability; nucleotide diversity; DNA sequence variation

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    Nei M and Li W-H (1979) Mathematical model for studying genetic variation in terms of restriction endonucleases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 76: 5269–5273.

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Li, Wen‐Hsiung(Jul 2006) Heterozygosity. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0005080]