Estimating mutation rate: How to count mutations?

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 797-805

  Fu, Yun Xin ^a   Huai, Haying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FAMILY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0037786678     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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