The impact of population expansion and mutation rate heterogeneity on DNA sequence polymorphism

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 494-504

  Aris Brosou, Stéphane ^a,b   Excoffier, Laurent ^b  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

demographic expansion; DNA polymorphism; gamma distributed mutation rates; human molecular evolution; mitochondrial DNA; Monte Carlo simulation; mutation rate heterogeneity; pairwise difference distribution

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0030056912     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025610     Document Type: Article

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