Seeing the forest through the gene-trees: What is the pattern in the human genome and what does it mean?

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 210-221

  Weiss, Kenneth M ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

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EID: 78651307366     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: 15206505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.20286     Document Type: Article

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