Distinguishing recombination and intragenic gene conversion by linkage disequilibrium patterns

Genetical Research

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-73

  Wiehe, Thomas ^a,c   Mountain, Joanna ^a,b   Parham, Peter ^b   Slatkin, Montgomery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ALLELE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; STATISTICS;

GENE CONVERSION; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034105647     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672399004036     Document Type: Article

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