A simple model of linkage disequilibrium and genetic drift in human genomic SNPs: Importance of demography and SNP age

Human Heredity

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 181-195

  Polanska, Joanna ^a,b   Kimmel, Marek ^a,b  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Linkage disequilibrium; Markov chains; Population dynamics; SNP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN GENOME; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 31844453060     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090542     Document Type: Article

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