Recombination hotspots as a point process

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1460, 2005, Pages 1597-1603

  De Iorio, Maria ^a   De Silva, Eric ^a   Stumpf, Michael P H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic diversity; Haplotype blocks; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; DNA; GENETIC VARIATION; RECOMBINATION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; POPULATION GENETICS;

BAYES THEOREM; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33644693345     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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