Distinguishing positive selection from neutral evolution: Boosting the performance of summary statistics

Genetics

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 229-244

  Lin, Kao ^a,b,c   Li, Haipeng ^a   Schlötterer, Christian ^d   Futschik, Andreas ^b,e  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^e Institute for Statistics   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SUMMARY STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SELECTION, GENETIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78951472188     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.122614     Document Type: Article

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