Estimation of the amount of DNA polymorphism when the neutral mutation rate varies among sites

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1959-1964

  Misawa, Kazuharu ^a   Tajima, Fumio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DNA; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0030735280     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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