MORE ON NEI AND ROYCHOUDHURY'S SAMPLING VARIANCES OF HETEROZYGOSITY AND GENETIC DISTANCE

S. Mitra ¹

¹ Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322

The inequality relationship between the expected values of ( j_x-g)² and (-g) ², where j_x is a biased and is an unbiased estimate of population homozygosity g, were examined earlier by Nei and Roychoudhury (1974) and later by Mitra (1975). The improvement in the inequality still left much to be desired. In this paper a lower boundary of g has been obtained which may be regarded as ultimate for ensuring a smaller expected value of ( j_x-g)² than the corresponding value of ( -g)².