Pronounced inter- and intrachromosomal variation in linkage disequilibrium across the zebra finch genome

Genome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 496-502

  Stapley, Jessica ^a   Birkhead, Tim R ^a   Burke, Terry ^a   Slate, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; MICROCHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FINCHES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 77950645759     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.102095.109     Document Type: Article

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