Estimate of the mutation rate per nucleotide in humans.

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Published in Genetics on September 01, 2000

Authors

M W Nachman1, S L Crowell

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1: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. nachman@u.arizona.edu

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