An exponential dispersion model for the distribution of human single nucleotide polymorphisms

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 579-590

  Kendal, Wayne S ^a  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coalescent model; Exponential dispersion model; Population genetics; Scale invariance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 0037389178     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg057     Document Type: Article

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