High mutation rate loci in a subdivided population.

doi:10.1006/tpbi.1993.1021

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High mutation rate loci in a subdivided population.

Theoretical population biology - 1 Aug 1993

O'Connell N, Slatkin M

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Analytic and simulation studies were carried out in order to predict the average geographic area occupied by alleles in a continuously distributed population. The properties of three statistics were investigated: the sum of the squared distances between members of allelic classes, the sum of the...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Computer Simulation
Forecasting
Gene Frequency
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Humans
Markov Chains
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Monte Carlo Method
Mutation
Population Density
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

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