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THE distribution of genotypes q2aa+2qpaA+p2AA, commonly called the Hardy–Weinberg law, has been recognised at least since 1908. It gives the frequencies of genotypes in a randomly mating population with respect to a single locus maintaining two alleles a and A with respective frequencies q and p. A generalisation given in 1922 by Wright and discussed in his book1 gives the distribution where F, the “fixation index” is the correlation between pairs of gametes uniting to form zygotes.
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STARK, A. Generalisation of the Hardy–Weinberg law. Nature 259, 44 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259044a0
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