Exact coalescent for the Wright-Fisher model

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 385-394

  Fu, Yun Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Exact coalescent; Kingman coalescent; Wright Fisher model

Indexed keywords

POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33646487014     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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