Inferring ancestries efficiently in admixed populations with linkage disequilibrium

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1141-1150

  Bercovici, Sivan ^a   Geiger, Dan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Computational molecular biology; Genetic mapping; Genetic variations; Machine learning; Markov chains

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVALUATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHROMOSOMES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MARKOV CHAINS; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 70349196360     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2009.0105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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