Estimating effective population size from linkage disequilibrium between unlinked loci: theory and application to fruit fly outbreak populations.

There is a substantial literature on the use of linkage disequilibrium (LD) to estimate effective population size using unlinked loci. The Ne estimates are extremely sensitive to the sampling process, and there is currently no theory to cope with the possible biases. We derive formulae for the analy...

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Main Authors: John A Sved, Emilie C Cameron, A Stuart Gilchrist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3720881?pdf=render