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Substitution times for mutant nucleotides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

G. A. Watterson
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Abstract

It is shown that, for one model of genetic evolution, the times at which mutations at nucleotide sites become fixed in a population tend to cluster together rather than behave as a Poisson process.

Keywords

MORAN'S GENETIC MODELINFINITELY MANY SITESCLUSTER POINT PROCESSTIME REVERSALSUBSTITUTION TIMESMUTANT NUCLEOTIDES
Type
Part 1 — Genetics
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 19 , Issue A , 1982 , pp. 59 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © 1982 Applied Probability Trust 

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