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The study of structured populations--new hope for a difficult and divided science.
Nature reviews. Genetics - 1 Jul 2003
Hey Jody, Machado Carlos A
Abstract excerpt
Natural populations, including those of humans, have complex geographies and histories. Studying how they evolve is difficult, but it is possible with population-based DNA sequence data. However, the study of structured populations is divided by two distinct schools of thought and analysis. The phylogeographic approach is fundamentally graphical and begins with a gene-tree estimate. By contrast, the more...
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