Reconstructing Druze population history [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2016 The Druze are an aggregate of communities in the Levant and Near East living almost exclusively in the mountains of Syria, Lebanon and Israel whose ~1000 year old religion formally opposes mixed marriages and conversions.
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On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics. [PDF]
Elife, 2023 Our understanding of population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting admixture graphs (AGs) to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures, which along with the amount of genetic drift and the proportions of ...
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On the prospect of achieving accurate joint estimation of selection with population history. [PDF]
Genome Biol Evol, 2022 As both natural selection and population history can affect genome-wide patterns of variation, disentangling the contributions of each has remained as a major challenge in population genetics.
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Selection, recombination and population history effects on runs of homozygosity (ROH) in wild red deer (Cervus elaphus). [PDF]
Heredity (Edinb), 2023 The distribution of runs of homozygosity (ROH) may be shaped by a number of interacting processes such as selection, recombination and population history, but little is known about the importance of these mechanisms in shaping ROH in wild populations. We
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Beta-PSMC: uncovering more detailed population history using beta distribution. [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2022 Background Inferring the demographic history of a population is essential in population genetic studies. Though the inference methods based on the sequentially Markov coalescent can present the population history in detail, these methods assume that the ...
Liu J, Ji X, Chen H.
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Reconstructing Indian population history [PDF]
Nature, 2009 India has been underrepresented in genome-wide surveys of human variation. We analyse 25 diverse groups in India to provide strong evidence for two ancient populations, genetically divergent, that are ancestral to most Indians today. One, the 'Ancestral North Indians' (ANI), is genetically close to Middle Easterners, Central Asians, and Europeans ...
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The deep population history in Africa. [PDF]
Hum Mol Genet, 2021 Africa is the continent with the greatest genetic diversity among humans and the level of diversity is further enhanced by incorporating non-majority groups, which are often understudied.
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The Impact of Purifying and Background Selection on the Inference of Population History: Problems and Prospects. [PDF]
Mol Biol Evol, 2021 Current procedures for inferring population history generally assume complete neutrality—that is, they neglect both direct selection and the effects of selection on linked sites.
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A high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly of Pelteobagrus vachelli provides insights into its environmental adaptation and population history [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 Pelteobagrus vachelli is a freshwater fish with high economic value, but the lack of genome resources has severely restricted its industrial development and population conservation.
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The comparative genomics and complex population history of Papio baboons [PDF]
Science Advances, 2019 We analyzed genome sequences from 6 baboon species and found evidence of ancient and recent hybridization among divergent species. Recent studies suggest that closely related species can accumulate substantial genetic and phenotypic differences despite ...
et al,, Phillips-Conroy, Jane
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