Talk:Genetic distance
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For such an important concept, this page is sort of pitiful.--Filll 14:47, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- I agree. I'm trying to find the distance between family maembers/ tribe members of humans and humans to plants bacteria etc...Is the a table some where?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Diza (talk • contribs) 18:02, 1 January 2007
There are some in the references I placed in the article. Basically you have to do a lot of work yourself. I have been meaning to fix this article up but have not got around to it yet.--Filll 18:04, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Removing basic stuff about DNA, etc. edit
I think that the details about very basic biology in this article, namely: DNA, should be removed, as if people do not know those details they can press on DNA for the main article of the subject. Otherwise this is unnecessary duplication.--George-E 22.57, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Missing definition edit
Genetic distance also commonly refers to the frequency of crossover/recombination events between two loci in the same organism, e.g. the Centimorgan measure, which is related to but different from physical distance (as measured in basepairs). See, for instance, [1], [2] or [3] (the last one possibly restricted access). Mceike (talk) 21:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Ambiguity edit
I am trying to code Nei's standard distance, and find the description unhelpful: is X_u the frequency of allele u in population X, or the number of copies of allele u in our sample from population X? Mkkuhner (talk) 16:45, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Review Consideration edit
This page is 12 years old, and makes reference to a poorly developed paper from 1974 (See citation 3 in the article). I recommend removal or the insert of strong caveats. The page is effectively obsolete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Temple3 (talk • contribs) 17:27, 30 March 2019 (UTC)