Estimating the age of the common ancestor of a DNA sample using the number of segregating sites

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 829-838

  Fu, Yun Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

DNA; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0029820359     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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