Measures of variation at DNA repeat loci under a general stepwise mutation model

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 345-367

  Kimmel, Marek ^a   Chakraborty, Ranajit ^b  

^a The NanoCarbon Center and Welch Institute for Advanced Materials   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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EID: 0030447670     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1996.0035     Document Type: Article

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