Confounding between recombination and selection, and the Ped/Pop method for detecting selection

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1304-1313

  O'Reilly, Paul F ^a   Birney, Ewan ^b   Balding, David J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; X CHROMOSOME;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PEDIGREE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 48949088705     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.067181.107     Document Type: Article

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