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.
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)
 * Agree. Will try to rewrite and expand the article soon. - Two  Oars  20:06, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Missing definition
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,, or  (the last one possibly restricted access). Mceike (talk) 21:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah this caught me out too... We should make a disambiguation page... hmm... how do I do that... How should I do that... --Dan|(talk) 15:57, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Ambiguity
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
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)

Nei's standard genetic distance - date and citation error
Nei's standard genetic distance was introduced in the 1979 publication: Nei, M., & Li, W.-H. (1979). Mathematical model for studying genetic variation in terms of restriction endonucleases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 76(10), 5269-5273. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.76.10.5269 2600:8801:E81E:B400:A13E:7518:DDEA:3ED7 (talk) 23:58, 29 June 2024 (UTC)