The total branch length of sample genealogies in populations of variable size

Genetics

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 601-611

  Eriksson, A ^a,b   Mehlig, B ^a   Rafajlovic, M ^a   Sagitov, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENEALOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 78951495771     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.117135     Document Type: Article

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