The difficulty of avoiding false positives in genome scans for natural selection

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 922-933

  Mallick, Swapan ^a,b   Gnerre, Sante ^b   Muller, Paul ^a,b   Reich, David ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY;

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EID: 66049087893     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.086512.108     Document Type: Article

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