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The short answer is no, there is heterogeneity in the rate at which different nucleotides mutate into one another. This is generally a property of their differing chemistries (although I'm not an expert on this). Therefore, it doesn't really make sense to talk of alleles being $p$ or $q$ like we do in most of population genetics, because the actual ...
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