Inference of demographic history from genealogical trees using reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo.

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BACKGROUND: Coalescent theory is a general framework to model genetic variation in a population. Specifically, it allows inference about population parameters from sampled DNA sequences. However, most currently employed variants of coalescent theory only consider very simple demographic scenarios of population size changes, such as exponential growth. RESULTS: Here we develop a coalescent approach that allows...

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