Not to butt in (as someone whose genetics knowledge is weak), but I love exchanges like these as I learn the most from them. I'd personally love it if I had both you, helena, and CP's devotech in on this and you guys took a ton of topics on genetics to their conclusions once and for all.
That said, I have been jewgling/deepseeking along as I read through you guys. I checked helena's statement ("FST takes into account the diversity within the populations as well as the diversity between them"), which the bots say is a true statement, and that the definition summarizes to "Diversity of the total population (HT) / Between-population diversity (Dxy)" and gave the formula Fst = (Ht-Hs)/(Ht)
If this is true, then wouldn't adding additional samples necessarily change the population sequences, and thus the diversity measure? Go easy, still studying this here.
EDIT: bots/jewgle both says FST does not measure absolute genetic distance.
aleleopathic 0 points 3 hours ago
Not to butt in (as someone whose genetics knowledge is weak), but I love exchanges like these as I learn the most from them. I'd personally love it if I had both you, helena, and CP's devotech in on this and you guys took a ton of topics on genetics to their conclusions once and for all.
That said, I have been jewgling/deepseeking along as I read through you guys. I checked helena's statement ("FST takes into account the diversity within the populations as well as the diversity between them"), which the bots say is a true statement, and that the definition summarizes to "Diversity of the total population (HT) / Between-population diversity (Dxy)" and gave the formula Fst = (Ht-Hs)/(Ht)
If this is true, then wouldn't adding additional samples necessarily change the population sequences, and thus the diversity measure? Go easy, still studying this here.
EDIT: bots/jewgle both says FST does not measure absolute genetic distance.