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Study offers recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics

The second century Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician Claudius Ptolemy had a grand ambition. Hoping to make sense of the motion of stars and the paths of planets, he published a magisterial ...
Nature

Inference of multiple-wave population admixture by modeling decay of linkage disequilibrium with polynomial functions

To infer the histories of population admixture, one important challenge with methods based on the admixture linkage disequilibrium (ALD) is to remove the effect of source LD (SLD), which is directly ...
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Gaussian Process-Based Bayesian Nonparametric Inference of Population Size Trajectories from Gene Genealogies

Changes in population size influence genetic diversity of the population and, as a result, leave a signature of these changes in individual genomes in the population. We are interested in the inverse ...
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The Effects of Inference Method, Population Sampling, and Gene Sampling on Species Tree Inferences: An Empirical Study in Slender Salamanders (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps)

Systematic Biology, Vol. 64, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (2013) (JANUARY 2015), pp. 66-83 (18 pages) Species tree methods are now widely used to infer the ...