Recombination gives a new insight in the effective population size and the history of the old world human populations

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-30

  Melé, Marta ^a   Javed, Asif ^b   Pybus, Marc ^a   Zalloua, Pierre ^c   Haber, Marc ^c   Comas, David ^a   Netea, Mihai G ^d   Balanovsky, Oleg ^e,f   Balanovska, Elena ^e   Jin, Li ^g   Yang, Yajun ^g   Pitchappan, R M ^h,i   Arunkumar, G ⁱ   Parida, Laxmi ^b   Calafell, Francesc ^a   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^f VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^g FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h CHETTINAD HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

ⁱ MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Out of Africa; Recombination

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOME; EGYPT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HISTORY; HUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICA; ASIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATABASES, GENETIC; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DENSITY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 82355174638     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr213     Document Type: Article

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