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... Perhaps the most important aspect of the theory that has seen rather little theoretical treatment thus far is the area that might loosely be called variable population size processes, and their inference. These issues are becoming more important in the analysis and interpretation of human mitochondrial sequence data.
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  • population genetics
  • human mitochondrial
  • population size
  • substitution rates
  • probabilistic structure

  • sequence data
  • mutation rates
  • substitution rate
  • maximum likelihood


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