Length Distribution of Ancestral Tracks under a General Admixture Model and Its Applications in Population History Inference

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ni, Xumin ^a   Yang, Xiong ^b   Guo, Wei ^c   Yuan, Kai ^b   Zhou, Ying ^b   Ma, Zhiming ^c   Xu, Shuhua ^b,d,e  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

^d SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN GENOME; MEXICAN; MODEL; POPULATION MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE; SOUTH ASIAN; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROUP; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 84956468124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20048     Document Type: Article

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