Simultaneous estimation of all the parameters of a stepwise mutation model

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 487-497

  Fu, Yun Xin ^a   Chakraborty, Ranajit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALGORITHM; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; HUMAN; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0031669927     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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