The influence of premeiotic clusters of mutation on indirect estimations of mutation rate

Human Heredity

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 150-155

  Gong, Yi ^a   Gu, Sheng ^a   Woodruff, R C ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average cluster size; Mutation rate; Premeiotic clusters of mutation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE;

ALLELES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 31144478077     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089955     Document Type: Article

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