Evidence for population growth in humans is confounded by fine-scale population structure

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 559-563

  Ptak, Susan E ^a   Przeworski, Molly ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0036843031     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(02)02781-6     Document Type: Review

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