Estimation of population allele frequencies from small samples containing multiple generations

Series on Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages 321-332

  Konovalov, Dmitry A ^a   Heg, Dik ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DISTANCES; GENETIC PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; SMALL SAMPLES;

BIOINFORMATICS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GENES; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84856854784     PISSN: 17516404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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