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A Bayesian approach to the identification of panmictic populations and the assignment of individuals.
Genetical research - 1 Aug 2001
Dawson K J, Belkhir K
Abstract excerpt
We present likelihood-based methods for assigning the individuals in a sample to source populations, on the basis of their genotypes at co-dominant marker loci. The source populations are assumed to be at Hardy-Weinberg and linkage equilibrium, but the allelic composition of these source populations and even the number of source populations represented in the sample are treated as uncertain. The parameter of...
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