Linkage Disequilibrium, Recombination and Selection

Handbook of Statistical Genetics: Third Edition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 909-944

  McVean, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ARG ancestral recombination graph; Coalescent modelling; Genealogical history; Haplotype blocks; Identity by descent; Linkage disequilibrium; Molecular processes mutation and recombination; Population crossover rate; Recombination hotspots; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889320525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470061619.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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