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Decomposing the admixture statistic, D, suggests a negligible contribution due to archaic introgression into humans

2021-01-21

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It is widely accepted that non-African humans carry a few percent of Neanderthal DNA due to historical inter-breeding. However, methods used to infer a legacy all assume that mutation rate is constant and that back-mutations can be ignored. Here I decompose the widely used admixture statistic, D, in a way that allows the overall signal to be apportioned to different classes of contributing site. I explore three ma...

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Literature Corpus work: e789028d-585f-5489-83a4-aaf6fa8d445b
DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.21.427635

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