Systematic underestimation of the age of selected alleles

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2012, Pages

  Kelley, Joanna L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele age; Haplotype length; Selected allele; Selective sweep; Time to most recent common ancestor; tMRCA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876033391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00165     Document Type: Article

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