Reliabilities of parsimony-based and likelihood-based methods for detecting positive selection at single amino acid sites

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2179-2185

  Suzuki, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nei, Masatoshi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human leukocyte antigen; Likelihood; Parsimony; Positive selection

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NATURAL SELECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0035215112     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003764     Document Type: Article

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