Epistasis and shapes of fitness landscapes

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1317-1342

  Beerenwinkel, Niko ^a   Pachter, Lior ^a   Sturmfels, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convex polytope; Epistasis; Fitness landscape; Gene interaction; Genotype space; Human genotope; Population simplex; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549166783     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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