Factors influencing ascertainment bias of microsatellite allele sizes: Impact on estimates of mutation rates

Genetics

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 563-572

  Li, Biao ^a   Kimmel, Marek ^a,b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASCERTAINMENT BIAS; CHIMPANZEE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR SIZE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

COALESCENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; FORWARD-TIME SIMULATION; MICROSATELLITE ASCERTAINMENT BIAS; MUTATION RATE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PAN TROGLODYTES; POPULATION DENSITY; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884919850     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.154161     Document Type: Article

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