The ages of mutation in gene trees

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 567-590

  Griffiths, R C ^a   Tavaré, Simon ^a  

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Author keywords

Ages of mutations; Ancestral inference; Coalescent process; Gene trees; Population genetics; Samples of DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033249368     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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