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for testing clustering of re-
                              Meiosis indicators, 189
                                                                         striction sites, 306–308
                              MENDEL pedigree likelihood soft-
                                      ware, xi, 185
                                                                     fixation probabilities, 323
                              Messenger RNA, see RNA, mes-
                                      senger
                                                                     fixation times, 324
                                                                     mean frequency, 326
                              Metaphase spread, 64               Neutral model, 321  Index  363
                              Methanogen, 215                        variance of frequency, 326
                              Metropolis algorithm, see Hastings-  Newton’s method, 39
                                      Metropolis algorithm           for a quadratic function, 52
                              Mixed model for polygenic trait,   Nonparametric linkage analysis
                                      154                            affecteds-only method, 106
                              Moran’s model, 14–16                   descent graph method, 192
                              Morgan, 132                        Normal distribution, 351–354
                              Mosquito two-locus genotype data,      multivariate, 142, 352–354
                                      34                               data compression, 161
                              Multilevel logistic model, 220         univariate, 351–352
                              Multinomial distribution           Normal equations, 159
                                  W d statistic for              Nuclear family, 27
                                    Poisson approximation to,        likelihood for, 136
                                      300                        Nucleosome, 342
                                  distribution function, 73, 74  Nucleotide, 341
                                  hidden, see Hidden trials      Nucleus, 215, 344
                                  testing hypotheses about, 62–
                                      73                         Obligate breaks
                              Multivariate normal distribution,      distribution
                                      see Normal distribution,         haploid case, 235, 250
                                      multivariate                     polyploid case, 244, 253
                              Mutation, 12                           minimum criterion
                                  in hemoglobin, 66                    consistency of, 233–235
                              Myotonic dystrophy pedigree data,        haploid case, 233
                                      128, 134                         polyploid case, 244
                                                                 Observed information, see Infor-
                              Needleman-Wunsch algorithm, 286–           mation, observed
                                      290                        Oligonucleotide, 347
                                  affine gap distance, 288         Order statistics, 310
                                  memory reduction, 289–290      Ott’s likelihood representation, 117
                                  parallel processing, 289
                              Neighborhood method, 299           Partial digest, 345
                                  for number of triangles in ran-  Partition function, see Gibbs ran-
                                      dom graph, 312                     dom fields, partition func-
                                  for somatic cell hybrid pan-           tion
                                      els, 303                   Pascal’s triangle, 285
                                  for success runs in Bernoulli  Paternity testing, 124–125
                                      trials, 314                Pattern matching, 281–283
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