The length of time required for a selectively neutral mutant to reach fixation through random frequency drift in a finite population
Motoo Kimura · Genetics Research · 1970
SUMMARY Frequency distribution of the length of time until fixation (excluding the cases of eventual loss) of a selectively neutral mutant in a finite population was obtained. With 4Negenerations (Ne, effective population size) as the unit length of time, the distribution has mean μ1= 1, standard deviation σ = 0·538, skewness γ1= 1·67 and kurtosis γ2= 4·51 (see Fig. 1).