The bayesian revolution in genetics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 251-261

  Beaumont, Mark A ^a   Rannala, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; GENETICS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 1842532350     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1318     Document Type: Review

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