Dynamic balance of segregation distortion and selection maintains normal allele sizes at the myotonic dystrophy locus

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-112

  Polanski A ^a   Chakraborty, R ^a   Kimmel, M ^b   Deka, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEIOSIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; REVIEW; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0031986177     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(97)00082-5     Document Type: Article

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