Is microsatellite mutational asymmetry detectable in allele frequency distributions?

IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 257-273

  Swinton, Jonathan ^a   Amos, Bill ^b  

^a Babraham Hall   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microsatellite mutation bias; Moran model; Non modal balance; Skew sampling varience

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NULL ALLELE; SAMPLING; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

DNA SEQUENCES; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GENES;

DRIFT PROCESS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; MICROSATELLITE MARKERS; MICROSATELLITE MUTATION BIAS; MICROSATELLITES; MORAN MODEL; MUTATION DISTRIBUTION; NON-MODAL BALANCE; ORDER PARAMETER; SKEW SAMPLING VARIENCE;

SAMPLING;

EID: 0038042050     PISSN: 02650746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imammb/19.4.257     Document Type: Article

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