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Asymptotic distributions are derived for the number of non-mutant ancestors, at time t in the past, of a sample of n from a neutral infinite alleles model. Either the number of non-mutant ancestors L n (t) has a normal distribution or n-Ln(t) has a Poisson distribution as n → ∞, t → 0.
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Griffiths, R.C. Asymptotic line-of-descent distributions. J. Math. Biology 21, 67–75 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00275223
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