The transient distribution of allele frequencies under mutation pressure.

PubWeight™: 1.70‹?› | Rank: Top 3%

🔗 View Article (PMID 1026567)

Published in Genet Res on December 01, 1976

Authors

M Nei, W H Li

Articles by these authors

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol (1987) 266.90

Mathematical model for studying genetic variation in terms of restriction endonucleases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1979) 41.08

MEGA2: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis software. Bioinformatics (2001) 38.50

Estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the control region of mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees. Mol Biol Evol (1993) 38.03

MEGA: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis software for microcomputers. Comput Appl Biosci (1994) 28.25

The codon Adaptation Index--a measure of directional synonymous codon usage bias, and its potential applications. Nucleic Acids Res (1987) 26.51

Analysis of gene diversity in subdivided populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1973) 26.31

Statistical tests of neutrality of mutations. Genetics (1993) 24.94

Statistical studies on protein polymorphism in natural populations. I. Distribution of single locus heterozygosity. Genetics (1977) 17.08

Pattern of nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class I loci reveals overdominant selection. Nature (1988) 15.05

Phylogenetic test of the molecular clock and linearized trees. Mol Biol Evol (1995) 14.60

Gene differences between Caucasian, Negro, and Japanese populations. Science (1972) 12.11

Sampling variances of heterozygosity and genetic distance. Genetics (1974) 11.91

Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear DNAs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1987) 10.66

A new method of inference of ancestral nucleotide and amino acid sequences. Genetics (1995) 10.23

DNA polymorphism detectable by restriction endonucleases. Genetics (1981) 10.13

Unbiased estimation of the rates of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution. J Mol Evol (1993) 9.43

Genomic divergences between humans and other hominoids and the effective population size of the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. Am J Hum Genet (2001) 9.35

The theory of genetic distance and evolution of human races. Jinrui Idengaku Zasshi (1978) 8.80

Relationships between gene trees and species trees. Mol Biol Evol (1988) 8.63

Evidence for higher rates of nucleotide substitution in rodents than in man. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1985) 8.18

Mutation rates differ among regions of the mammalian genome. Nature (1989) 7.63

Accuracy of estimated phylogenetic trees from molecular data. II. Gene frequency data. J Mol Evol (1983) 7.45

Date of the monocot-dicot divergence estimated from chloroplast DNA sequence data. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1989) 6.99

Limitations of the evolutionary parsimony method of phylogenetic analysis. Mol Biol Evol (1990) 5.92

F-statistics and analysis of gene diversity in subdivided populations. Ann Hum Genet (1977) 5.89

Codon usage in regulatory genes in Escherichia coli does not reflect selection for 'rare' codons. Nucleic Acids Res (1986) 5.68

Estimation of fixation indices and gene diversities. Ann Hum Genet (1983) 5.67

Genetic structure of human populations. II. Differentiation of blood group gene frequencies among isolated populations. Heredity (Edinb) (1966) 5.55

Positive Darwinian selection after gene duplication in primate ribonuclease genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1998) 5.54

Maximum likelihood estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions from restriction sites data. Genetics (1983) 5.48

Estimation of evolutionary distance between nucleotide sequences. Mol Biol Evol (1984) 5.39

Linkage disequilibrium in subdivided populations. Genetics (1973) 5.22

Distribution of nucleotide differences between two randomly chosen cistrons in a finite population. Genetics (1977) 5.22

Allelic genealogy under overdominant and frequency-dependent selection and polymorphism of major histocompatibility complex loci. Genetics (1990) 5.11

An evolutionary perspective on synonymous codon usage in unicellular organisms. J Mol Evol (1986) 5.05

Maximum likelihood estimation of the heterogeneity of substitution rate among nucleotide sites. Mol Biol Evol (1995) 4.88

Genetic distances and reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from microsatellite DNA. Genetics (1996) 4.55

Nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class II loci: evidence for overdominant selection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1989) 4.52

Drift variances of heterozygosity and genetic distance in transient states. Genet Res (1975) 4.45

Nonrandomness of point mutation as reflected in nucleotide substitutions in pseudogenes and its evolutionary implications. J Mol Evol (1984) 4.42

Rates of nucleotide substitution in angiosperm mitochondrial DNA sequences and dates of divergence between Brassica and other angiosperm lineages. J Mol Evol (1999) 4.37

Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of drosophilid species. Mol Biol Evol (1995) 4.33

Pseudogenes as a paradigm of neutral evolution. Nature (1981) 4.33

Statistical properties of bootstrap estimation of phylogenetic variability from nucleotide sequences. I. Four taxa with a molecular clock. Mol Biol Evol (1992) 4.31

The rate of synonymous substitution in enterobacterial genes is inversely related to codon usage bias. Mol Biol Evol (1987) 4.30

Is the guinea-pig a rodent? Nature (1991) 4.25

Genetic distance and electrophoretic identity of proteins between taxa. J Mol Evol (1973) 4.19

Modification of linkage intensity by natural selection. Genetics (1967) 3.99

Transposable elements are found in a large number of human protein-coding genes. Trends Genet (2001) 3.89

Human hepatic lipase. Cloned cDNA sequence, restriction fragment length polymorphisms, chromosomal localization, and evolutionary relationships with lipoprotein lipase and pancreatic lipase. J Biol Chem (1988) 3.74

On the rate of DNA sequence evolution in Drosophila. J Mol Evol (1989) 3.74

Non-random association between electromorphs and inversion chromosomes in finite populations. Genet Res (1980) 3.69

Gene genealogy and variance of interpopulational nucleotide differences. Genetics (1985) 3.64

Infinite allele model with varying mutation rate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1976) 3.56

Estimation of average number of nucleotide substitutions when the rate of substitution varies with nucleotide. J Mol Evol (1982) 3.45

Patterns of nucleotide substitution in pseudogenes and functional genes. J Mol Evol (1982) 3.43

The molecular clock runs more slowly in man than in apes and monkeys. Nature (1987) 3.42

Population dynamics of sex-determining alleles in honey bees and self-incompatibility alleles in plants. Genetics (1979) 3.27

Simple method for constructing phylogenetic trees from distance matrices. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1981) 3.09

Probability of identical monomorphism in related species. Genet Res (1975) 2.91

Male-driven evolution of DNA sequences. Nature (1993) 2.86

Efficiencies of fast algorithms of phylogenetic inference under the criteria of maximum parsimony, minimum evolution, and maximum likelihood when a large number of sequences are used. Mol Biol Evol (2000) 2.86

Genetic variability maintained by mutation and overdominant selection in finite populations. Genetics (1981) 2.79

Genic variation within and between the three major races of man, Caucasoids, Negroids, and Mongoloids. Am J Hum Genet (1974) 2.77

The size distribution of insertions and deletions in human and rodent pseudogenes suggests the logarithmic gap penalty for sequence alignment. J Mol Evol (1995) 2.77

The frequency distribution of lethal chromosomes in finite populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1968) 2.76

Statistical Studies on Protein Polymorphism in Natural Populations. III. Distribution of Allele Frequencies and the Number of Alleles per Locus. Genetics (1980) 2.76

Theoretical foundation of the minimum-evolution method of phylogenetic inference. Mol Biol Evol (1993) 2.74

Worldwide DNA sequence variation in a 10-kilobase noncoding region on human chromosome 22. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2000) 2.67

Estimating the age of the common ancestor of a sample of DNA sequences. Mol Biol Evol (1997) 2.64

Global patterns of human DNA sequence variation in a 10-kb region on chromosome 1. Mol Biol Evol (2001) 2.64

Letters to the editors: Lewontin-Krakauer test for neutral genes. Genetics (1975) 2.59

Models of evolution of reproductive isolation. Genetics (1983) 2.58

Phylogenetic analysis of polymorphic DNA sequences at the Adh locus in Drosophila melanogaster and its sibling species. J Mol Evol (1985) 2.48

Interior-branch and bootstrap tests of phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol (1995) 2.45

Positive Darwinian selection promotes charge profile diversity in the antigen-binding cleft of class I major-histocompatibility-complex molecules. Mol Biol Evol (1990) 2.41

Coalescing into the 21st century: An overview and prospects of coalescent theory. Theor Popul Biol (1999) 2.38

Testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by distribution of single locus heterozygosity. Nature (1976) 2.37

Accumulation of mutations in sexual and asexual populations. Genet Res (1987) 2.30

Models of nearly neutral mutations with particular implications for nonrandom usage of synonymous codons. J Mol Evol (1987) 2.27

Genetic structure of human populations. I. Local differentiation of blood group gene frequencies in Japan. Heredity (Edinb) (1966) 2.26

The number of nucleotides required to determine the branching order of three species, with special reference to the human-chimpanzee-gorilla divergence. J Mol Evol (1986) 2.25

Accuracies of ancestral amino acid sequences inferred by the parsimony, likelihood, and distance methods. J Mol Evol (1997) 2.23

Identity of genes by descent within and between populations under mutation and migration pressures. Theor Popul Biol (1972) 2.19

Positive darwinian selection observed at the variable-region genes of immunoglobulins. Mol Biol Evol (1989) 2.17

Estimation of mutation rate from rare protein variants. Am J Hum Genet (1977) 2.15

Statistical Studies on Protein Polymorphism in Natural Populations II. Gene Differentiation between Populations. Genetics (1978) 2.13

Evolution of human races at the gene level. Prog Clin Biol Res (1982) 2.13

Note on genetic drift and estimation of effective population size. Genetics (1984) 2.07

Relative efficiencies of the maximum parsimony and distance-matrix methods in obtaining the correct phylogenetic tree. Mol Biol Evol (1988) 2.03

Maximum likelihood estimation of population parameters. Genetics (1993) 2.01

Total number of individuals affected by a single deleterious mutation in a finite population. Am J Hum Genet (1972) 1.98