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Subsampling reveals that unbalanced sampling affects STRUCTURE results in a multi-species dataset.
Heredity - 1 Mar 2019
Meirmans Patrick G
Abstract excerpt
Studying the genetic population structure of species can reveal important insights into several key evolutionary, historical, demographic, and anthropogenic processes. One of the most important statistical tools for inferring genetic clusters is the program STRUCTURE. Recently, several papers have pointed out that STRUCTURE may show a bias when the sampling design is unbalanced, resulting in spurious joining of...
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