Refining the use of linkage disequilibrium as a robust signature of selective sweeps

Genetics

Volumn 203, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1807-1825

  Jacobs, Guy S ^a,b   Sluckin, Tim J ^a   Kivisild, Toomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic map; Linkage disequilibrium; Positive selection; Recombination rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE SWEEP; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; VARIANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPES; HAPMAP PROJECT; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84981516310     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.185900     Document Type: Article

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