Genomic relationships and speciation times of human, chimpanzee, and gorilla inferred from a coalescent hidden Markov model

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0294-0304

  Hobolth, Asger ^a   Christensen, Ole F ^b   Mailund, Thomas ^b,c   Schierup, Mikkel H ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENEALOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GORILLA; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME; HOMINID; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 33847253862     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030007     Document Type: Article

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