Inferring the ancestry of parents and grandparents from genetic data.

Inference of admixture proportions is a classical statistical problem in population genetics. Standard methods implicitly assume that both parents of an individual have the same admixture fraction. However, this is rarely the case in real data. In this paper we show that the distribution of admixtur...

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Main Authors: Jingwen Pei, Yiming Zhang, Rasmus Nielsen, Yufeng Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008065