How Many Subpopulations Is Too Many?: Exponential Lower Bounds for Inferring Population Histories

Reconstruction of population histories is a central problem in population genetics. Existing coalescent-based methods, like the seminal work of Li and Durbin (Nature, 2011), attempt to solve this problem using sequence data but have no rigorous guarantees. Determining the amount of data needed to co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kim, Younhun, Koehler, Frederic, Moitra, Ankur, Mossel, Elchanan, Ramnarayan, Govind
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126860