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TMRCA is observable from the branch lengths of a coalescent

2026-07-26

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The height of ancestral trees, in other words the time to the most recent common ancestor in a genealogical tree, is an informative statistic in population genomics and used in contexts of genealogical dating, demographic history inference, and assessing signals of selection. Exploiting a general pathwise identity between the height of a tree and its branch lengths, we revisit Zeng et al.’s mutation rate estimator...

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Literature Corpus work: c6773701-81bb-50fb-9b39-07e04568d1e2
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.22.740130

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