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Inference of historical changes in migration rate from the lengths of migrant tracts.
Genetics - 1 Feb 2009
Pool John E, Nielsen Rasmus
Abstract excerpt
After migrant chromosomes enter a population, they are progressively sliced into smaller pieces by recombination. Therefore, the length distribution of "migrant tracts" (chromosome segments with recent migrant ancestry) contains information about historical patterns of migration. Here we introduc...
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