Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

Statistics in molecular biology and genetics: Selected proceedings of the Joint AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Conference on Statistics in Molecular Biology held in Seattle, WA, June 22--26, 1997

Editor: Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch

Lecture Notes--Monograph Series, Volume 33
Hayward, CA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1999.
313 pp.

Subjects:

92-06 (primary)
60-06 (secondary)
62-06 (secondary)
Permanent link to this monograph: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.lnms/1215455541
Mathmatical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR1842143
ISBN:0-940600-47-1

Copyright © 1999, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Miscellaneous Frontmatter

i-iv

Preface

Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch; v-vi

Genetic Mechanisms

On a Markov model for chromatid interference

Hongyu Zhao, and Terence P. Speed; 1-20

Population Genetics

Some statistical aspects of cytonuclear disequilibria

Susmita Datta; 21-37

Diffusion process calculations for mutant genes in nonstationary populations

Ruzong Fan, and Kenneth Lange; 38-55

The coalescent with partial selfing and balancing selection: an application of structured coalescent processes

Magnus Nordborg; 56-76

Human Genetics

Statistical aspects of the transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT)

Warren J. Ewens; 77-94

Estimation of conditional multilocus gene identity among relatives

Elizabeth A. Thompson, and Simon C. Heath; 95-113

Quantitative Genetics

A review of methods for identifying QTLs in experimental crosses

Karl W. Broman, and T. P. Speed; 114-142

Evolutionary Genetics

Markov chain Monte Carlo for the Bayesian analysis of evolutionary trees from aligned molecular sequences

Michael A. Newton, Bob Mau, and Bret Larget; 143-162

Likelihoods on coalescents: a Monte Carlo sampling approach to inferring parameters from population samples of molecular data

Joseph Felsenstein, Mary K. Kuhner, Jon Yamato, and Peter Beerli; 163-185

Uses of statistical parsimony in HIV analyses

Keith A. Broman, and T. Speed; 186-206

Linear estimators for the evolution of transposable elements

Paul Joyce, Linette Fox, N. Carol Casavant, and Holly A. Wichman; 207-220

A conditional approach to the detection of correlated mutations

Maha C. Karnoub, Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch, and Pranab K. Sen; 221-235

Correlated mutations in models of protein sequences: phylogenetic and structural effects

Alan S. Lapedes, Bertrand Giraud, LonChang Liu, and Gary D. Stormo; 236-256

Sequence Motifs

Large compound Poisson approximations for occurrences of multiple words

Gesine Reinert, and Sophie Schbath; 257-275

Protein Structure

Deriving interatomic distance bounds from chemical structure

Michael W. Trosset, and George N. Phillips; 276-287

Protein fold class prediction is a new field for statistical classification and regression

Lutz Edler, and Janet Grassmann; 288-313

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series