Balancing selection at closely linked, overdominant loci in a finite population

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1367-1378

  Slatkin, Montgomery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENES, DOMINANT; HAPLOTYPES; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034089033     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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