A note on the correlation between heterozygosity and recombination rate

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 209-210

  Ohta, Tomoko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; POPULATION GENETICS;

GENE CONVERSION; HETEROZYGOTE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033383266     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.74.209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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