Extensions of the Coalescent Effective Population Size
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Extensions of the coalescent effective population size.
We suggest two extensions of the coalescent effective population size of Sjödin et al. (2005) and make a third, practical point. First, to bolster its relevance to data and allow comparisons between models, the coalescent effective size should be recast as a kind of mutation effective size. Second, the requirement that the coalescent effective population size must depend linearly on the actual ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.092460