Estimating the age of retrotransposon subfamilies using maximum likelihood
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Maximum union-free subfamilies
An old problem of Moser asks: what is the size of the largest union-free subfamily that one can guarantee in every family of m sets? A family of sets is called union-free if there are no three distinct sets in the family such that the union of two of the sets is equal to the third set. We show that every family of m sets contains a union-free subfamily of size at least √4m + 1 − 1 and that this...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Genomics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0888-7543
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2009.04.002