Number of lethal equivalents in human populations: How good are the previous estimates?

Heredity

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 209-216

  Lee, Jae Kyun ^a   Lascoux, Martin ^b   Nordheim, Erik V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

consanguineous marriages; deleterious alleles; inbreeding coefficient; lethal equivalents; marginalized methods of moments

Indexed keywords

EID: 9544225089     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1996.126     Document Type: Article

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