Calibrating a coalescent simulation of human genome sequence variation

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1576-1583

  Schaffner, Stephen F ^a   Foo, Catherine ^a   Gabriel, Stacey ^a   Reich, David ^a,b   Daly, Mark J ^a   Altshuler, David ^a,b,c  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 27544497650     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3709305     Document Type: Article

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