A comparison of estimators of the population recombination rate

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 156-163

  Wall, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalescent simulations; Evolutionary inference; Recombination; Statistical tests of neutrality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MUTATION RATE; PARAMETER; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0033955443     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026228     Document Type: Article

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