Statistical tests of selective neutrality in the age of genomics

2001/06/01 by Rasmus Nielsen · 1,908 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · #Biology #Computational biology #Computer science #Demography #Effective population size #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genetic variation #Genetics #Genome #Genomics #Machine learning #Mathematics #Neutral theory of molecular evolution #Nonsynonymous substitution #Population #Population genomics #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Statistical hypothesis testing #Statistics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1046/j.1365-2540.2001.00895.x

published in Heredity 86(6), 641-647 (Springer Nature)

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