Author Correction: Establishment and equilibrium levels of deleterious mutations in large populations.

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Establishment and equilibrium levels of deleterious mutations in large populations.

Analytical and statistical stochastic approaches are used to model the dispersion of monogenic variants through large populations. These approaches are used to quantify the magnitude of the selective advantage of a monogenic heterozygous variant in the presence of a homozygous disadvantage. Dunbar's results regarding the cognitive upper limit of the number of stable social relationships that humans can maintain are used to determine a realistic effective community size from which an individual can select mates.