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Mutation Rates

Mutation Rates is a metric that quantifies the frequency at which new genetic mutations arise per unit of time or per generation in a population, distinguishing it from related population genetic measures by specifically reflecting the origination rate of heritable genomic changes.

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<i>G</i><sub>ST</sub>and its relatives do not measure differentiation

Lou Jost · Molecular Ecology · 2008 · 2.5K citations · Full text

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Mutation of human short tandem repeats

J. L. Weber, Carmen Chak‐Lui Wong · Human Molecular Genetics · 1993 · 1.6K citations

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The Probability of Duplicate Gene Preservation by Subfunctionalization

Michael Lynch, Allan Force · Genetics · 2000 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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Estimation of Past Demographic Parameters From the Distribution of Pairwise Differences When the Mutation Rates Vary Among Sites: Application to Human Mitochondrial DNA

Stefan Schneider, Laurent Excoffier · Genetics · 1999 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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Estimate of the Mutation Rate per Nucleotide in Humans

Michael W. Nachman, Susan L. Crowell · Genetics · 2000 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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    Michael Lynch

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

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    John W. Drake

    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, United States

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    Rafael Sanjuán

    Universitat de València, Spain

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    Brian Charlesworth

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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    Paul Sniegowski

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

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