A probabilistic method for testing and estimating selection differences between populations

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1903-1909

  He, Yungang ^a   Wang, Minxian ^a   Huang, Xin ^a   Li, Ran ^a   Xu, Hongyang ^a   Xu, Shuhua ^a   Jin, Li ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGLN1 PROTEIN; EPAS1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC BACKGROUND; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MELANOGENESIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MUTATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; PROBABILITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84956641213     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.192336.115     Document Type: Article

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