Population growth enhances the mean fixation time of neutral mutations and the persistence of neutral variation

Genetics

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 561-577

  Waxman, D ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862535419     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.139220     Document Type: Article

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