The Confounding Effect of Population Structure on Bayesian Skyline Plot Inferences of Demographic History

Many coalescent-based methods aiming to infer the demographic history of populations assume a single, isolated and panmictic population (i.e. a Wright-Fisher model). While this assumption may be reasonable under many conditions, several recent studies have shown that the results can be misleading wh...

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Main Author: Heller, Rasmus (author)
Other Authors: Chikhi, Lounes (author), Siegismund, Hans Redlef (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/452
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:arca.igc.gulbenkian.pt:10400.7/452