Modeling of African population history using f-statistics is biased when applying all previously proposed SNP ascertainment schemes

• Pavel Flegontov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pavel Flegontov, Ulaş Işıldak, Robert Maier

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pflegontov@gmail.com (PF); reich@genetics.med.harvard.edu (DR)

  Affiliations Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia, Kalmyk Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Elista, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9759-4981

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• Ulaş Işıldak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pavel Flegontov, Ulaş Işıldak, Robert Maier

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: E.Y., Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical U., Ankara, Turkey; U.I., Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany.

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6497-6254

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• Robert Maier ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pavel Flegontov, Ulaş Işıldak, Robert Maier

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Eren Yüncü,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: E.Y., Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical U., Ankara, Turkey; U.I., Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany.

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia

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• Piya Changmai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia

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• David Reich

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pflegontov@gmail.com (PF); reich@genetics.med.harvard.edu (DR)

  Affiliations Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7037-5292

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