Molecular signatures of natural selection

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2005, Pages 197-218

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Darwinian selection; Genome scans; Neutrality tests; Phylogenetic footprinting; Positive selection

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 29444452921     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.39.073003.112420     Document Type: Review

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