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Demographic inference using genetic data from a single individual: separating population size variation from population structure

Mazet Olivier, Rodríguez Valcarce Willy, Chikhi Lounès
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/011866
Mazet Olivier
*Université de Toulouse, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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Rodríguez Valcarce Willy
*Université de Toulouse, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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Chikhi Lounès
§CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, ENFA, UMR 5174 EDB (Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique), F-31062 Toulouse, France
†Université de Toulouse, UPS, EDB, F-31062 Toulouse, France
‡Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, P-2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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The rapid development of sequencing technologies represents new opportunities for population genetics research. It is expected that genomic data will increase our ability to reconstruct the history of populations. While this increase in genetic information will likely help biologists and anthropologists to reconstruct the demographic history of populations, it also represents new challenges. Recent work has shown that structured populations generate signals of population size change. As a consequence it is often difficult to determine whether demographic events such as expansions or contractions (bottlenecks) inferred from genetic data are real or due to the fact that populations are structured in nature. Given that few inferential methods allow us to account for that structure, and that genomic data will necessarily increase the precision of parameter estimates, it is important to develop new approaches. In the present study we analyse two demographic models. The first is a model of instantaneous population size change whereas the second is the classical symmetric island model. We (i) re-derive the distribution of coalescence times under the two models for a sample of size two, (ii) use a maximum likelihood approach to estimate the parameters of these models (iii) validate this estimation procedure under a wide array of parameter combinations, (iv) implement and validate a model choice procedure by using a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Altogether we show that it is possible to estimate parameters under several models and perform efficient model choice using genetic data from a single diploid individual.

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Demographic inference using genetic data from a single individual: separating population size variation from population structure
Mazet Olivier, Rodríguez Valcarce Willy, Chikhi Lounès
bioRxiv 011866; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/011866
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Demographic inference using genetic data from a single individual: separating population size variation from population structure
Mazet Olivier, Rodríguez Valcarce Willy, Chikhi Lounès
bioRxiv 011866; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/011866

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