On the decidability of population size histories from finite allele frequency spectra

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 120, Issue , 2018, Pages 42-51

  Baharian, Soheil ^a   Gravel, Simon ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demographic inference; Diffusion; Frequency spectrum; Wright Fisher

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECTRUM;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 85044968577     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2017.12.008     Document Type: Article

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