Demography and the Age of Rare Variants

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Mathieson, Iain ^a,b   McVean, Gil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; MUTATION RATE; STATISTICAL MODEL; BLACK PERSON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIA; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS;

EID: 84926320923     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004528     Document Type: Article

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