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:
 
, with 
 . The estimates
of the components of variance of interest for the lth locus are within
populations, r is the number of populations examined:
. The estimates
of the components of variance of interest for the lth locus are within
populations, r is the number of populations examined:
 
and between populations:
![\begin{displaymath}
a_{l}=\frac{\left[ 2\sum ^{r}_{i=1}n_{i}\sum ^{v_{l}}_{u=1}\...
...^{2}-\left( r-1\right) b_{l}\right] }{2\left( r-1\right) n_{c}}\end{displaymath}](img34.png) 
When there are just two populations, r = 2, the usual genetic distance situation obtains, and the most convenient computing formulas for the variance components are (used in Populations)
 
