The effect of recurrent mutation on the frequency spectrum of a segregating site and the age of an allele

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 158-173

  Jenkins, Paul A ^a   Song, Yun S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele age; Coalescent; Frequency spectrum; Genealogy; Triallelic site

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALLELE; COALESCENCE; GENEALOGY; GENOMICS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY;

AGE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MUTATION;

AGE FACTORS; ALLELES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MUTATION;

EID: 79960632498     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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