The impact of accelerating faster than exponential population growth on genetic variation

Genetics

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 819-828

  Reppell, Mark ^a   Boehnke, Michael ^a   Zöllner, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH RATE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COALESCENT; FASTER THAN EXPONENTIAL; POPULATION GROWTH; RARE VARIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84901306779     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.158675     Document Type: Article

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