The structure of genealogies in the presence of purifying selection: A fitness-class coalescent

Genetics

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 753-779

  Walczak, Aleksandra M ^a   Nicolaisen, Lauren E ^b   Plotkin, Joshua B ^c   Desai, Michael M ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKGROUND SELECTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857406186     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.134544     Document Type: Article

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