An overview of population genetic data simulation

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-54

  Yuan, Xiguo ^a   Miller, David J ^c   Zhang, Junying ^a   Herrington, David ^d   Wang, Yue ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State University   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

backward simulators; disease association study; forward simulators; genome simulation; resampling.

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84855457614     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2010.0188     Document Type: Article

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