Estimation of linkage disequilibrium in randomly mating populations

Heredity

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1974, Pages 229-239

  Hill, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC LINKAGE; MODEL; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); PROBABILITY;

EID: 0016319012     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1974.89     Document Type: Article

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