Towards Improvements in the Estimation of the Coalescent: Implications for the Most Effective Use of Y Chromosome Short Tandem Repeat Mutation Rates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Bird, Steven C ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COALESCENT AGE ESTIMATION; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION RATE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868309663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048638     Document Type: Article

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