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Estimating effective population size and mutation rate from sequence data using Metropolis-Hastings sampling.
Genetics - 1 Aug 1995
Kuhner M K, Yamato J, Felsenstein J
Abstract excerpt
We present a new way to make a maximum likelihood estimate of the parameter 4N mu (effective population size times mutation rate per site, or theta) based on a population sample of molecular sequences. We use a Metropolis-Hastings Markov chain Monte Carlo method to sample genealogies in proportion to the product of their likelihood with respect to the data and their prior probability with respect to a coalescent...
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