Measuring departures from Hardy-Weinberg: A Markov chain Monte Carlo method for estimating the inbreeding coefficient

Heredity

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 769-777

  Ayres, Karen L ^a   Balding, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Hardy Weinberg; Inbreeding coefficient; Inbreeding model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Metropolis Hastings algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; INBREEDING; SIMULATION;

GENETICS; INBREEDING COEFFICIENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032103583     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.1998.00360.x     Document Type: Article

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