Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock

2009/06/01 by Pedro Soares, Luca Ermini, Noel Thomson +8 · 145 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biological dispersal #Biology #Demography #Evolutionary biology #Forensic and Genetic Research #Gene #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genetics #Genome #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Genotype #Haplotype #Mitochondrial DNA #Molecular clock #Mutation rate #Phylogenetic tree #Population #mtDNA control region

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