Estimating the age of alleles by use of intraallelic variability

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 447-458

  Slatkin, Montgomery ^a   Rannala, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INTRONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031025214     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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