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Category Archives: methods
Isolating isolation by distance
Update, 29 Jan 2015: This post has been edited to remove a video clip from the movie “Chinatown,” which was jarring and really just unnecessary, as pointed out in the comments. At its most basic level, population genetics is about … Continue reading
Posted in methods, population genetics
Tagged AMOVA, isolation by distance, null model, outlier test, population structure
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Calculating pair-wise, unbiased Fst with R:
Calculating Weir and Cockerham’s FST is very useful because it is unbiased with respect to sample size (Weir and Cockerham 1984). Without adjusting allele frequency estimates with respect to sample sizes, estimates of FST can be upwardly biased (see Waples … Continue reading
Posted in methods, population genetics, software
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