On the number of ancestors to a DNA sequence

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1459-1468

  Wiuf, Carsten ^a   Hein, Jotun ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0030726751     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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