Maximum-likelihood estimation of demographic parameters using the frequency spectrum of unlinked single-nucleotide polymorphisms

Genetics

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1699-1712

  Adams, Alison M ^a   Hudson, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 10844238913     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.030171     Document Type: Article

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