Monte Carlo inference methods in population genetics

DOI10.1016/0895-7177(96)00046-5zbMath0853.92014OpenAlexW2037126579MaRDI QIDQ1921110

Simon Tavaré, Robert C. Griffiths

Publication date: 11 August 1996

Published in: Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0895-7177(96)00046-5

zbMATH Keywords

ancestral inferencecoalescentrecurrence equationsmost recent common ancestorvarying environmentsubstitution rateallelesinfinitely-many-sitesmitochondrial control region datasample configuration of DNA sequencessegregation sites

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Protein sequences, DNA sequences (92D20) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10)

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