mtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major southern Asian chapter in human prehistory
The relative timing and size of regional human population growth following our expansion from Africa remains unknown. Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity carries a legacy of our population history. Given a set of sequences, we can use coalescent theory to estimate past population size through...
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Oxford University Press
2008
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