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Genetic absolute dating based on microsatellites and the origin of modern humans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Jul 1995
Goldstein D B, Ruiz Linares A, Cavalli-Sforza L L, Feldman M W
Abstract excerpt
We introduce a new genetic distance for microsatellite loci, incorporating features of the stepwise mutation model, and test its performance on microsatellite polymorphisms in humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas. We find that it performs well in determining the relations among the primates, but less well than other distance measures (not based on the stepwise mutation model) in determining the relations among...
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