Interpretation of findings of founder population genetics studies applying lineage extinction theory

Haim Livni and Joseph Livni

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 462, issue C, 641-653

Abstract: Population genetic investigation of founder events produce intriguing results and this work discusses how branching processes help the cross-examination of such results. For example one reads that 40% of the current Ashkenazi population carry the mtDNA of four founding mothers, (Behar et al., 2006) half of the Ashkenazi Levites descend from one founder (Behar et al., 2003), and 22% of the Malagasy population are descendants of a Polynesian ancestor, (Cox et al., 2012).

Keywords: Founder event; Branching process; Ashkenazi Jews; Ashkenazi Levites; Major lineage; Malagasy founder event (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.05.060

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