Can one hear the shape of a population history?

Junhyong Kim, Elchanan Mossel, Rácz, Miklós Z. and Nathan Ross

Theoretical Population Biology, 2015, vol. 100, issue C, 26-38

Abstract: Reconstructing past population size from present day genetic data is a major goal of population genetics. Recent empirical studies infer population size history using coalescent-based models applied to a small number of individuals. Here we provide tight bounds on the amount of exact coalescence time data needed to recover the population size history of a single, panmictic population at a certain level of accuracy. In practice, coalescence times are estimated from sequence data and so our lower bounds should be taken as rather conservative.

Keywords: Population size; Estimation; Coalescent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2014.12.002

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