The effective family size of immigrant founders predicts their long-term demographic outcome: From Québec settlers to their 20th-century descendants.

Population history reconstruction, using extant genetic diversity data, routinely relies on simple demographic models to project the past through ascending genealogical-tree branches. Because genealogy and genetics are intimately related, we traced descending genealogies of the Québec founders to pu...

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Main Authors: Damian Labuda, Tommy Harding, Emmanuel Milot, Hélène Vézina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266079