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Acknowledgments.-This work was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (GB-3246) and the National Institutes of Health (GM-10476). The authors wish to thank Drs R. W. Allard and S. K. Jain for their helpful criticisms of the manuscript.
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Brown, A., Weir, B. & Marshall, D. Optimum family size for the estimation of heterozygosity in plant populations. Heredity 25, 233–239 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1970.28
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