Estimating Effective Population Size or Mutation Rate with Microsatellites

Genetics

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 555-563

  Xu, Hongyan ^a   Fu, Yun Xin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOMOZYGOSITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; BIOMETRY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 1642337411     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.1.555     Document Type: Article

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