Isolation-by-distance-and-time in a stepping-stone model

Nicolas Duforet-Frebourg and Montgomery Slatkin

Theoretical Population Biology, 2016, vol. 108, issue C, 24-35

Abstract: With the great advances in ancient DNA extraction, genetic data are now obtained from geographically separated individuals from both present and past. However, population genetics theory about the joint effect of space and time has not been thoroughly studied. Based on the classical stepping-stone model, we develop the theory of Isolation by distance and time. We derive the correlation of allele frequencies between demes in the case where ancient samples are present, and investigate the impact of edge effects with forward-in-time simulations. We also derive results about coalescent times in circular and toroidal models. As one of the most common ways to investigate population structure is principal components analysis (PCA), we evaluate the impact of our theory on PCA plots. Our results demonstrate that time between samples is an important factor. Ancient samples tend to be drawn to the center of a PCA plot.

Keywords: Isolation-by-distance; Ancient DNA; Coalescence times; Principal component analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2015.11.003

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