Inference on admixture fractions in a mechanistic model of recurrent admixture

Erkan Ozge Buzbas and Paul Verdu

Theoretical Population Biology, 2018, vol. 122, issue C, 149-157

Abstract: Signatures of recent historical admixture are ubiquitous in human populations. We present a mechanistic model of admixture with two source populations, encompassing recurrent admixture periods and study the distribution of admixture fractions for finite but arbitrary genome size. We provide simulation-based methods to estimate the introgression parameters and discuss the implications of reaching stationarity on estimability of parameters when there are recurrent admixture events with different rates.

Keywords: Recurrent admixture; Introgression parameters; Stationary distribution; Population genetics; Bayesian computation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2018.03.006

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