Bayesian inference of fine-scale recombination rates using population genomic data

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1512, 2008, Pages 3921-3930

  Wang, Ying ^a   Rannala, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral recombination graph; Bayesian inference; Linkage disequilibrium; Recombination hotspot; Recombination rate

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION GENETICS; RECOMBINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 57149092597     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0172     Document Type: Article

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