The proportion of variants identified in samples randomly ascertained from the population.

The proportion of variants discovered assuming linkage equilibrium and their standard deviations (shown in parentheses) in samples of N = 100, 200, 500, and 1,000 individuals for variants with equal population frequencies of 0.001, 0.002, 0.005, and 0.01. Although the mean proportions of variants discovered are not dependent on the number of variants in the genome, the standard deviations will vary depending on the number of variants. The standard deviations shown are for M = 1,000 variants. All proportions of variants discovered displayed as 1.0 were rounded up and their actual values are between >0.999 and <1.0.