The stationary distribution of allele frequencies when selection acts at unlinked loci

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 376-386

  Fearnhead, Paul ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancestral selection graph; Complex diseases; Epistasis; Genealogies; Wright Fisher model

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; FITNESS; GENEALOGY; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MODELING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749243154     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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