Mitochondrial and nuclear genes present conflicting portraits of human origins

Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism.

1989 • 13,216 citations

Population growth makes waves in the distribution of pairwise genetic differences.

1992 • 4,603 citations

Statistical tests of neutrality of mutations.

1993 • 3,901 citations

Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution

1987 • 2,967 citations

Pairwise comparisons of mitochondrial DNA sequences in stable and exponentially growing populations.

1991 • 2,351 citations

The effect of deleterious mutations on neutral molecular variation.

1993 • 1,838 citations

Gene genealogies and the coalescent process.

1990 • 1,776 citations

THE EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGE OF RECOMBINATION

1974 • 1,737 citations

The effect of change in population size on DNA polymorphism.

1989 • 1,373 citations

DNA POLYMORPHISM DETECTABLE BY RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASES

1981 • 1,346 citations

African Populations and the Evolution of Human Mitochondrial DNA

1991 • 1,320 citations

Low nucleotide diversity in man.

1991 • 501 citations

The pattern of neutral molecular variation under the background selection model.

1995 • 431 citations

Demic Expansions and Human Evolution

1993 • 417 citations

Drift, admixture, and selection in human evolution: a study with DNA polymorphisms.

1991 • 413 citations

Production of single-stranded DNA templates by exonuclease digestion following the polymerase chain reaction

1989 • 342 citations

Allelic genealogy and human evolution.

1993 • 293 citations

The structure of human mitochondrial DNA variation

1991 • 243 citations

Nonneutral Mitochondrial DNA Variation in Humans and Chimpanzees

1996 • 220 citations

Neutral and non-neutral evolution of Drosophila mitochondrial DNA.

1994 • 185 citations

Molecular and population genetic analysis of allelicsequence diversity at the human beta-globin locus.

1994 • 107 citations

Evolution of human mitochondrial DNA: Evidence for departure from a pure neutral model of populations at equilibrium

1990 • 102 citations

The X chromosome shows less genetic variation at restriction sites than the autosomes.

1986 • 71 citations

Phylogeny of human β‐globin haplotypes and its implications for recent human evolution

1990 • 68 citations

Characterization and nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding the human pyruvate dehydrogenase α-subunit

1990 • 24 citations

In Defense of “Eve”—A Response to Templeton's Critique

1994 • 19 citations

Molecular variation of the human elastin (ELN) gene in a normal human population

1995 • 5 citations