Genetic evidence for unequal effective population sizes of human females and males

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2047-2057

  Wilder, Jason A ^a,b   Mobasher, Zahra ^a   Hammer, Michael F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

mtDNA; Natural selection; TMRCA; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT 3 GENE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; KHOISAN POPULATION; MALE; MONGOLIA; NATURAL SELECTION; NON AFRICAN POPULATION; NONRECOMBINING Y CHROMOSOME SEGMENT; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POPULATION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; SAMPLING; TIME; TIME TO THE MOST RECENT COMMON ANCESTOR; Y CHROMOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 6344225549     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh214     Document Type: Article

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