Microsatellites: Evolution and mutational processes

CIBA Foundation Symposia

Volumn , Issue 197, 1996, Pages 51-72

  Freimer, Nelson B ^a   Slatkin, Montgomery ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 0029679840     PISSN: 03005208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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