title: The use of sample genealogies for studying a selectively neutral m-loci model with recombination.
abstract: A selectively neutral m-loci model with recombination is studied. A general method is developed to calculate the variance of the number of segregating sites in samples of arbitrary size and the m-loci homozygosity. The method is based on properties of the genealogy of the sample rather than diffusion approximations. To demonstrate the scope of the method several calculations are presented.
mesh_terms: D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005854:Germ Cells; D008433:Mathematics; D008957:Models, Genetic; D011995:Recombination, Genetic