RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 High Frequency Haplotypes are Expected Events, not Historical Figures
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 022160
DO 10.1101/022160
A1 Elsa G. Guillot
A1 Murray P. Cox
YR 2015
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/09/17/022160.abstract
AB Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which they attribute to cultural transmission of reproductive success by prominent historical men, including Genghis Khan. Using coalescent simulation, we show that these high frequency haplotypes are consistent with a neutral model, where they commonly appear simply by chance. Hence, explanations invoking cultural transmission of reproductive success are statistically unnecessary.