Relationship between DNA polymorphism and fixation time.

doi:10.1093/genetics/125.2.447

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Relationship between DNA polymorphism and fixation time.

Genetics - 1 Jun 1990

Tajima F

Abstract excerpt

When there is no recombination among nucleotide sites in DNA sequences, DNA polymorphism and fixation of mutants at nucleotide sites are mutually related. Using the method of gene genealogy, the relationship between the DNA polymorphism and the fixation of mutant nucleotide was quantitatively inv...

Topics

Base Sequence
Computer Simulation
DNA
Kinetics
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Polymorphism, Genetic
Recombination, Genetic

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