Reconstructing past changes in locus-specific recombination rates

BMC Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cox, Murray P ^a   Holland, Barbara R ^b   Wilkins, Matthew C ^a   Schmid, Jan ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Recombination rate; Reconstruction; Statistical inference; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; GENES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874160731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-14-11     Document Type: Article

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