Say I have Locus A with two alleles (A1 and A2) Locus B with 2 alleles (B1 and B2). Then the number of multilocus gametoypes is 2*2 = 4, that is: A1B1, A1B2, A2B1 and A2B2.
Now say I have Locus A with n1 alleles and Locus B with n2 alleles. Then the number of multilocus gametoypes is n1*n2. What is the number of possible multilocus genotypes?
How do you generalize this to more than two loci ?
Binod Regmi
The maximum possible multilocus genotype is (n1 x n2 x.........x n(j-1) x nj) given that n1=number of alleles in locus 1 and nj=number of alleles in the last locus under consideration. To make simple, its the product of the number of alleles of all locus. This gives the theoretical number of possible genotypes in the population.
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