The time to the ancestor along sequences with recombination

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-144

  Griffiths, R C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancestral inference; Coalescent process; Population genetics; Recombination; Samples of DNA; Time to the most recent common ancestor

Indexed keywords

GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

EID: 0033117748     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1998.1390     Document Type: Article

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