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1 The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol 1987 266.90
2 Mathematical model for studying genetic variation in terms of restriction endonucleases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1979 41.08
3 MEGA2: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis software. Bioinformatics 2001 38.50
4 Estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the control region of mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees. Mol Biol Evol 1993 38.03
5 MEGA: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis software for microcomputers. Comput Appl Biosci 1994 28.25
6 Analysis of gene diversity in subdivided populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1973 26.31
7 Statistical studies on protein polymorphism in natural populations. I. Distribution of single locus heterozygosity. Genetics 1977 17.08
8 Pattern of nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class I loci reveals overdominant selection. Nature 1988 15.05
9 Phylogenetic test of the molecular clock and linearized trees. Mol Biol Evol 1995 14.60
10 Gene differences between Caucasian, Negro, and Japanese populations. Science 1972 12.11
11 Sampling variances of heterozygosity and genetic distance. Genetics 1974 11.91
12 A new method of inference of ancestral nucleotide and amino acid sequences. Genetics 1995 10.23
13 DNA polymorphism detectable by restriction endonucleases. Genetics 1981 10.13
14 The theory of genetic distance and evolution of human races. Jinrui Idengaku Zasshi 1978 8.80
15 Relationships between gene trees and species trees. Mol Biol Evol 1988 8.63
16 Accuracy of estimated phylogenetic trees from molecular data. II. Gene frequency data. J Mol Evol 1983 7.45
17 Limitations of the evolutionary parsimony method of phylogenetic analysis. Mol Biol Evol 1990 5.92
18 F-statistics and analysis of gene diversity in subdivided populations. Ann Hum Genet 1977 5.89
19 Estimation of fixation indices and gene diversities. Ann Hum Genet 1983 5.67
20 Genetic structure of human populations. II. Differentiation of blood group gene frequencies among isolated populations. Heredity (Edinb) 1966 5.55
21 Positive Darwinian selection after gene duplication in primate ribonuclease genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998 5.54
22 Maximum likelihood estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions from restriction sites data. Genetics 1983 5.48
23 Estimation of evolutionary distance between nucleotide sequences. Mol Biol Evol 1984 5.39
24 Linkage disequilibrium in subdivided populations. Genetics 1973 5.22
25 Allelic genealogy under overdominant and frequency-dependent selection and polymorphism of major histocompatibility complex loci. Genetics 1990 5.11
26 Genetic distances and reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from microsatellite DNA. Genetics 1996 4.55
27 Nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class II loci: evidence for overdominant selection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989 4.52
28 Drift variances of heterozygosity and genetic distance in transient states. Genet Res 1975 4.45
29 Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of drosophilid species. Mol Biol Evol 1995 4.33
30 Pseudogenes as a paradigm of neutral evolution. Nature 1981 4.33
31 Genetic distance and electrophoretic identity of proteins between taxa. J Mol Evol 1973 4.19
32 Modification of linkage intensity by natural selection. Genetics 1967 3.99
33 Non-random association between electromorphs and inversion chromosomes in finite populations. Genet Res 1980 3.69
34 Gene genealogy and variance of interpopulational nucleotide differences. Genetics 1985 3.64
35 Infinite allele model with varying mutation rate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1976 3.56
36 Estimation of average number of nucleotide substitutions when the rate of substitution varies with nucleotide. J Mol Evol 1982 3.45
37 Population dynamics of sex-determining alleles in honey bees and self-incompatibility alleles in plants. Genetics 1979 3.27
38 Probability of identical monomorphism in related species. Genet Res 1975 2.91
39 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
40 Genetic variability maintained by mutation and overdominant selection in finite populations. Genetics 1981 2.79
41 Genic variation within and between the three major races of man, Caucasoids, Negroids, and Mongoloids. Am J Hum Genet 1974 2.77
42 The frequency distribution of lethal chromosomes in finite populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1968 2.76
43 Statistical Studies on Protein Polymorphism in Natural Populations. III. Distribution of Allele Frequencies and the Number of Alleles per Locus. Genetics 1980 2.76
44 Theoretical foundation of the minimum-evolution method of phylogenetic inference. Mol Biol Evol 1993 2.74
45 Letters to the editors: Lewontin-Krakauer test for neutral genes. Genetics 1975 2.59
46 Models of evolution of reproductive isolation. Genetics 1983 2.58
47 Phylogenetic analysis of polymorphic DNA sequences at the Adh locus in Drosophila melanogaster and its sibling species. J Mol Evol 1985 2.48
48 Interior-branch and bootstrap tests of phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol 1995 2.45
49 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
50 Testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by distribution of single locus heterozygosity. Nature 1976 2.37
51 Accumulation of mutations in sexual and asexual populations. Genet Res 1987 2.30
52 Genetic structure of human populations. I. Local differentiation of blood group gene frequencies in Japan. Heredity (Edinb) 1966 2.26
53 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
54 Accuracies of ancestral amino acid sequences inferred by the parsimony, likelihood, and distance methods. J Mol Evol 1997 2.23
55 Identity of genes by descent within and between populations under mutation and migration pressures. Theor Popul Biol 1972 2.19
56 Positive darwinian selection observed at the variable-region genes of immunoglobulins. Mol Biol Evol 1989 2.17
57 Estimation of mutation rate from rare protein variants. Am J Hum Genet 1977 2.15
58 Evolution of human races at the gene level. Prog Clin Biol Res 1982 2.13
59 Statistical Studies on Protein Polymorphism in Natural Populations II. Gene Differentiation between Populations. Genetics 1978 2.13
60 Note on genetic drift and estimation of effective population size. Genetics 1984 2.07
61 Relative efficiencies of the maximum parsimony and distance-matrix methods in obtaining the correct phylogenetic tree. Mol Biol Evol 1988 2.03
62 Total number of individuals affected by a single deleterious mutation in a finite population. Am J Hum Genet 1972 1.98
63 Small-sample tests of episodic adaptive evolution: a case study of primate lysozymes. Mol Biol Evol 1997 1.97
64 Linkage modifications and sex difference in recombination. Genetics 1969 1.96
65 Stable linkage disequilibrium without epistasis in subdivided populations. Theor Popul Biol 1974 1.93
66 Extinction time of deleterious mutant genes in large populations. Theor Popul Biol 1971 1.87
67 Polymorphism and evolution of influenza A virus genes. Mol Biol Evol 1986 1.86
68 Gene duplication and nucleotide substitution in evolution. Nature 1969 1.85
69 Efficiencies of different genes and different tree-building methods in recovering a known vertebrate phylogeny. Mol Biol Evol 1996 1.84
70 Mean and variance of FST in a finite number of incompletely isolated populations. Theor Popul Biol 1977 1.79
71 Divergent evolution and evolution by the birth-and-death process in the immunoglobulin VH gene family. Mol Biol Evol 1994 1.77
72 Effective population size when fertility is inherited. Genet Res 1966 1.76
73 Variability and heritability of human fertility. Ann Hum Genet 1970 1.71
74 The transient distribution of allele frequencies under mutation pressure. Genet Res 1976 1.70
75 A note on positive identification of paternity by using genetic markers. Hum Hered 1983 1.66
76 Evolution of Antennapedia-class homeobox genes. Genetics 1996 1.63
77 Probability of fixation and mean fixation time of an overdominant mutation. Genetics 1973 1.57
78 Variance and covariances of the numbers of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions per site. Mol Biol Evol 1994 1.57
79 Relative efficiencies of the maximum-likelihood, neighbor-joining, and maximum-parsimony methods when substitution rate varies with site. Mol Biol Evol 1994 1.57
80 Evolution of the major histocompatibility complex: independent origin of nonclassical class I genes in different groups of mammals. Mol Biol Evol 1989 1.56
81 Persistence of common alleles in two related populations or species. Genetics 1977 1.54
82 Evolutionary change of linkage intensity. Nature 1968 1.54
83 Relative efficiencies of the maximum-parsimony and distance-matrix methods of phylogeny construction for restriction data. Mol Biol Evol 1991 1.53
84 Four-cluster analysis: a simple method to test phylogenetic hypotheses. Mol Biol Evol 1995 1.48
85 Dynamics of gene differentiation between incompletely isolated populations of unequal sizes. Theor Popul Biol 1974 1.47
86 F and g statistics in the finite island model. Genetics 1984 1.46
87 Accuracy of estimated phylogenetic trees from molecular data. I. Distantly related species. J Mol Evol 1982 1.45
88 Reliabilities of parsimony-based and likelihood-based methods for detecting positive selection at single amino acid sites. Mol Biol Evol 2001 1.44
89 Effective size of human populations. Am J Hum Genet 1970 1.41
90 ADAPTSITE: detecting natural selection at single amino acid sites. Bioinformatics 2001 1.40
91 Total number of individuals affected by a single deleterious mutation in large populations. Theor Popul Biol 1971 1.39
92 Statistical properties of the ordinary least-squares, generalized least-squares, and minimum-evolution methods of phylogenetic inference. J Mol Evol 1992 1.35
93 Drift variances of FST and GST statistics obtained from a finite number of isolated populations. Theor Popul Biol 1977 1.31
94 Frequency changes of new inversions in populations under mutation-selection equilibria. Genetics 1967 1.29
95 Effects of restricted population size and increase in mutation rate on the genetic variation of quantitative characters. Genetics 1966 1.26
96 Maintenance of MHC polymorphism. Nature 1992 1.25
97 Tests of applicability of several substitution models for DNA sequence data. Mol Biol Evol 1995 1.24
98 Models of host-parasite interaction and MHC polymorphism. Genetics 1992 1.19
99 Evolution of immunoglobulin VH pseudogenes in chickens. Mol Biol Evol 1995 1.17
100 Genetic variation in subdivided populations and conservation genetics. Heredity (Edinb) 1986 1.16
101 Utility and efficiency of linked marker genes for genetic counseling. II. Identification of linkage phase by offspring phenotypes. Am J Hum Genet 1982 1.15
102 Origins and divergence times of mammalian class II MHC gene clusters. J Hered 2000 1.12
103 A case of high rate of spontaneous mutation affecting viability in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 1973 1.12
104 Concerted evolution of the immunoglobulin VH gene family. Mol Biol Evol 1984 1.12
105 Evolutionary relationships of class II major-histocompatibility-complex genes in mammals. Mol Biol Evol 1990 1.11
106 Biases of the estimates of DNA divergence obtained by the restriction enzyme technique. J Mol Evol 1982 1.10
107 An unusual form of purifying selection in a sperm protein. Mol Biol Evol 2000 1.09
108 Locus specificity of polymorphic alleles and evolution by a birth-and-death process in mammalian MHC genes. Mol Biol Evol 1999 1.07
109 Proportion of informative families for genetic counseling with linked marker genes. Jinrui Idengaku Zasshi 1979 1.07
110 Fifty-million-year-old polymorphism at an immunoglobulin variable region gene locus in the rabbit evolutionary lineage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999 1.05
111 Natural selection at the class II major histocompatibility complex loci of mammals. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1994 1.04
112 Evolution of vertebrate immunoglobulin variable gene segments. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2000 1.04
113 METREE: a program package for inferring and testing minimum-evolution trees. Comput Appl Biosci 1994 1.04
114 Genetic relationships between Indians and their neighboring populations. Hum Hered 1985 1.01
115 Genetic relationship of human populations and ethnic differences in reaction to drugs and food. Prog Clin Biol Res 1986 0.98
116 Relationships between intrapopulational and interpopulational genetic diversity in man. Ann Hum Biol 1991 0.95
117 Evolutionary dynamics of the T-cell receptor VB gene family as inferred from the human and mouse genomic sequences. Mol Biol Evol 2001 0.93
118 Genetic Effects of X Rays on Quantitative Characters in a Heterogeneous Population of DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. Genetics 1965 0.93
119 Differences in the relative distribution of human gene diversity between electrophoretic and red and white cell antigen loci. Hum Hered 1983 0.92
120 Genetic structure of human populations 3. Differentiation of ABO blood group gene frequencies in small areas of Japan. Heredity (Edinb) 1966 0.92
121 Heterozygous effects and frequency changes of lethal genes in populations. Genetics 1969 0.92
122 Evolution of immunoglobulin kappa chain variable region genes in vertebrates. Mol Biol Evol 1998 0.92
123 Diversity and evolution of T-cell receptor variable region genes in mammals and birds. Immunogenetics 1999 0.92
124 Nonrandom amino acid substitution and estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in evolution. J Mol Evol 1978 0.92
125 Hidden genetic variability within electromorphs in finite populations. Genetics 1976 0.91
126 Assessing molecular phylogenies. Science 1995 0.90
127 Ancient interlocus exon exchange in the history of the HLA-A locus. Genetics 1989 0.90
128 Evolutionary relationships of the classes of major histocompatibility complex genes. Immunogenetics 1993 0.89
129 Subunit molecular weight and genetic variability of proteins in natural populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1978 0.87
130 Genome evolution: let's stick together. Heredity (Edinb) 2003 0.87
131 Standard error of immunological dating of evolutionary time. J Mol Evol 1977 0.86
132 Inconsistency of the maximum parsimony method when the rate of nucleotide substitution is constant. J Mol Evol 1994 0.86
133 Empirical relationship between the number of nucleotide substitutions and interspecific identity of amino acid sequences in some proteins. J Mol Evol 1976 0.85
134 Central neurogenic hyperventilation in an awake patient with a pontine glioma. Neurology 1996 0.84
135 Relative contributions of germline gene variation and somatic mutation to immunoglobulin diversity in the mouse. Mol Biol Evol 1986 0.83
136 Estimation of fitness reduction due to a chronic disease in man. Ann Hum Genet 1981 0.83
137 Electrophoretically silent alleles in a finite population. J Mol Evol 1976 0.82
138 Genomic drift and copy number variation of chemosensory receptor genes in humans and mice. Cytogenet Genome Res 2009 0.81
139 Stochastic errors in DNA evolution and molecular phylogeny. Prog Clin Biol Res 1986 0.81
140 Age of the common ancestor of human mitochondrial DNA. Mol Biol Evol 1992 0.81
141 Interlocus variation of genetic distance and the neutral mutation theory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1975 0.80
142 Vagal nerve stimulation: adjustments to reduce painful side effects. Neurology 2001 0.80
143 Unbiased estimates of the number of nucleotide substitutions when substitution rate varies among different sites. J Mol Evol 1994 0.77
144 Inter-RNA homology and possible roles of small RNAs. J Mol Evol 1981 0.77
145 Positive selection in the evolution of mammalian interleukin-2 genes. Mol Biol Evol 2000 0.77
146 [Study on molecular evolution for both variable segments of immunoglobulin heavy chain and T cell receptor]. Yi Chuan Xue Bao 1989 0.76
147 Molecular population genetics and evolution. Front Biol 1975 0.75
148 Subdivision and inbreeding. Am J Hum Genet 1971 0.75
149 Estimation of Mutation Rate in Rare Recessive Traits. Am J Hum Genet 1963 0.75
150 Workshop on DNA polymorphisms. Prog Clin Biol Res 1982 0.75
151 Augmentation algorithm: a reply to Holmquist. J Mol Evol 1979 0.75
152 On the positive identification of paternity. Hum Hered 1984 0.75
153 [Molecular variation and evolution in population, with special reference to man]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 1968 0.75
154 A case of epidermolysis bullosa acquisita with bleeding tendency due to factor VIII inhibitor (acquired haemophilia). Br J Dermatol 2004 0.75
155 Protein polymorphism and the SAS-CFF model. Genetics 1980 0.75
156 Goodman et al.'s method for augmenting the number of nucleotide substitutions. J Mol Evol 1978 0.75
157 Polymorphism and evolution of the Rh blood groups. Jinrui Idengaku Zasshi 1981 0.75
158 Statistical properties of the Jukes-Holmquist method of estimating the number of nucleotide substitutions: reply to Holmquist and Conroy's criticism. J Mol Evol 1981 0.75
159 [Genetic effects of radiation in man. Population level]. Jinrui Idengaku Zasshi 1966 0.75
160 Diffusion of 36Cl atom in 36Cl labeled silver chloride crystal from inner lattice site to surface. Radioisotopes 1982 0.75
161 Linear IgA bullous dermatosis of neonatal onset: case report and review of the literature. Acta Paediatr 2004 0.75