Genealogical or coalescent methods have proved very useful in interpreting and understanding a wide range of population genetic data. Our aim is to illustrate some of the central ideas behind this approach. The primary focus is genealogy in neutral genetic models, for which the effects of demography can be separated from those of mutation. We describe the coalescent for panmictic populations of...

AUTOMATING THE EXTRACTION OF DOMAIN SPECIFIC INFORMATION FROM THE WEB—A CASE STUDY FOR THE GENEALOGICAL DOMAIN Troy Walker Department of Computer Science Master of Science Current ways of finding genealogical information within the millions of pages on the Web are inadequate. In an effort to help genealogical researchers find desired information more quickly, we have developed GeneTIQS, a Genea...

In this paper, we formulate six different resolutions of a continuous-time approximation of the Wright-Fisher sample genealogical process. We derive Markov chains for the six different approximations in the spirit of J.F.C. Kingman. These Markov chains are essential for inference methods. One of the resolutions is the well-known n-coalescent due to Kingman. The second resolution was mentioned b...

BACKGROUND There is no data on depression prevalence in Croatia. The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence and psychosocial risk factors of depression in the adult population of the Croatian capital Zagreb, particularly in patients suffering from Depressive episode (F32) and Recurrent depressive disorder (F33). SUBJECTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was preformed on a repres...

Genetic divergence in the form of the mandible is examined in ten inbred strains of mice. Several univariate and multivariate genetic distance estimates are given for the morphological data and these estimates are compared to measures of genealogical and molecular divergence. Highly significant divergence occurs among the ten strains in all 11 mandible traits considered individually and simulta...

On-line genealogy is becoming America’s latest craze [1]. The LDS church’s FamilySearch website contains only a fraction of the information that is available on the Web. People around the world, both members and non-members, have posted family trees and other genealogical information on tens of thousands of websites throughout the Web. Although the genealogical data posted by individuals repres...

The genealogical ancestors to an individual are the the individuals that can be reached by a string of operators mother/father to that individual, like motherfatherfather. Within that set are the individuals, that has genetic material that was transmitted to the present individual. Genetic ancestry is in general given more attention as that is a component in genetic analysis and mapping, while ...

The most slow and tedious job in genealogical research is searching civil or church records for information about an individual. But, this is an essential step in research. By searching multiple sources such as census records, wills, deeds, birth and death records we can compile a more complete set of information, and potentially the pedigree of an individual. When records are stored electronic...

The article examines the organizational patterns of nineteenth-century Swiss Alpine geology. It argues that early and middle nineteenth-century Swiss geognosy was shaped in genealogical terms and that the patterns of genealogical reasoning and practice worked as a vehicle of transmission toward the generalization of locally gained empirical knowledge. The case study is provided by the Zurich ge...