R. N. Curnow, T. B. L. Kirkwood, Statistical Analysis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Sequence Data--A Review, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 152, No. 2 (1989), pp. 199-220
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Curnow et al. (1989) studied this question.