Population structure

cosmos 3rd February 2017 at 12:10pm
Demography Population genetics

Population genetics

Single-nucleotide polymorphism used to track movement of human populations

Most of our mutations are the same (and originated in Africa)

Natural selection pressure can cause fast speciation

Genome-wide association studyes: identify which parts of the Genome that influence Disease, for designing drugs, personalized medicine.

Clustering

STRUCTURE: a model-based approach, using Gibbs sampling method for Bayesian inference