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Robust to bottlenecks

Posted by ecoronap on 05 Feb 2010 at 06:05 GMT

The demographic models included a variety of bottleneck models for East Asians and Europeans, and models of constant size with recent growth for Yoruba
http://plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040072#article1.body1.sec2.sec1.p3

I'm curious as to how robust this method is to bottleneck effects. I've looked at the main article and supplementary materials and didn't find a direct answer.

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