Heterogeneity of long-distance migration in studies of genetic structure.

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One of the assumptions of migration matrix methods of population structure is that long-distance migrants are all sampled from a genetically homogeneous 'outside world'. This assumption has not often been tested. This paper examines migration and surname data from four towns in historical Massachusetts in order to examine this assumption and potential genetic effects of heterogeneous long-distance migration....

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