Detecting loci under selection in a hierarchically structured population

Heredity

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 285-298

  Excoffier, L ^a,b   Hofer, T ^a,b   Foll, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; F statistics; Genome scan; Human evolution; Selection

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANCESTRY; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOME; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MUTATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; MUTATION; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 70349506039     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.74     Document Type: Article

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