Inferring Human Demographic Histories of Non-African Populations from Patterns of Allele Sharing.

ABSTRACT: Recent human-genetics studies have come to different conclusions regarding how and when modern humans spread out of Africa and into the rest of the world. I present here a simple parsimony-based analysis that suggests that East Asians and Melanesians are sister groups, and I discuss what implications this has for recent claims made about the demographic histories of non-African populations.

SUBMITTER: Wall JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5420348 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature