Asymptotic distributions of coalescence times and ancestral lineage numbers for populations with temporally varying size

Genetics

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 721-736

  Chen, Hua ^a   Chen, Kun ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COALESCENCE TIME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENEALOGY; HUMAN; POPULATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

ANCESTRAL INFERENCE; ANCESTRAL LINEAGE; COALESCENCE TIME; COALESCENT THEORY; GENE GENEALOGY; VARIABLE POPULATION SIZE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84879764213     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.151522     Document Type: Article

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