The Impact of Population Demography and Selection on the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Lohmueller, Kirk E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXOME; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EXOME; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901608835     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004379     Document Type: Article

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