Title
Inference of historical migration rates via haplotype sharing.
Abstract
Pairs of individuals from a study cohort will often share long-range haplotypes identical-by-descent. Such haplotypes are transmitted from common ancestors that lived tens to hundreds of generations in the past, and they can now be efficiently detected in high-resolution genomic datasets, providing a novel source of information in several domains of genetic analysis. Recently, haplotype sharing distributions were studied in the context of demographic inference, and they were used to reconstruct recent demographic events in several populations. We here extend the framework to handle demographic models that contain multiple demes interacting through migration. We extensively test our formulation in several demographic scenarios, compare our approach with methods based on ancestry deconvolution and use this method to analyze Masai samples from the HapMap 3 dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1093/bioinformatics/btt239
BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
haplotypes,hapmap project,human migration
Human migration,Data mining,Source code,International HapMap Project,Inference,Computer science,Haplotype,Bioinformatics,Java,Haplotype estimation,Common descent
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
13
1367-4803
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.47
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pier Francesco Palamara1262.82
Itsik Pe’er2547.64