Day #1. The basics of inference in population genetics: Wright Fisher and the coalescent

SUMMARY

• Introduced the WF model
• Coalescent : probabilistic model
• Simulations with ms
• Introduction to R
• Coalescent simulations and tree visualization with R

QUESTION

If you had genetic data from many independent markers, would you be able to determine whether they were generated by

• A stationary population?
• A bottlenecked population?
• A growing population?

What question would be important to ask to answer that?

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