POPSIM: A general population simulation program

Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 458-464

  Hampe, Jochen ^a,d   Wienker, Thomas ^c   Schreiber, Stefan ^a   Nürnberg, Peter ^b  

^a IVth Department of Medicine   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d Kiel and Lungen Clinic Grosshansdorf   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINKAGE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031829428     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.5.458     Document Type: Article

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