The sampling distribution of disease-associated alleles

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1855-1861

  Slatkin, Montgomery ^a   Rannala, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; HEMOPHILIA A; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; THEORY;

ALLELES; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FACTOR VIII; FEMALE; HEMOPHILIA A; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING STUDIES; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030734926     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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