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Human population expansion and microsatellite variation.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 May 2000
Zhivotovsky L A, Bennett L, Bowcock A M, Feldman M W
Abstract excerpt
Polymorphisms at di-, tri-, and tetranucleotide microsatellite loci have been analyzed in 14 worldwide populations. A statistical index of population expansion, denoted S(k), is introduced to detect historical changes in population size using the variation at the microsatellites. The index takes the value 0 at equilibrium with constant population size and is positive or negative according to whether the...
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