Population genetic inference from genomic sequence variation
- 12 January 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Genome Research
- Vol. 20 (3), 291-300
- https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.079509.108
Abstract
Population genetics has evolved from a theory-driven field with little empirical data into a data-driven discipline in which genome-scale data sets test the limits of available models and computational analysis methods. In humans and a few model organisms, analyses of whole-genome sequence polymorphism data are currently under way. And in light of the falling costs of next-generation sequencing technologies, such studies will soon become common in many other organisms as well. Here, we assess the challenges to analyzing whole-genome sequence polymorphism data, and we discuss the potential of these data to yield new insights concerning population history and the genomic prevalence of natural selection.Keywords
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