Coalescent Theory

Handbook of Statistical Genetics: Third Edition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 843-877

  Nordborg, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosomal lineages; Continuous time Markov process; Genealogical distortion; Genomic polymorphism data; Mendelian segregation; Most recent common ancestor; Neutral mutations; Pergeneration migration probabilities; Phylogenetic inference; Wright Fisher neutral evolution model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882454218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470061619.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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