Andrew D Kern

Effects of linked selective sweeps on demographic inference and model selection

This study evaluates how positive selection affects demographic inference by testing three methods on simulated datasets with linked selective sweeps, finding that selection can bias parameter estimates and lead to incorrect population size inferences.

S/HIC: Robust identification of soft and hard sweeps using machine learning

S/HIC uses machine learning to accurately detect hard and soft selective sweeps in whole genome sequencing data, outperforming existing methods under realistic demographic scenarios.

Behavioral variation in Drosophila melanogaster: no evidence for common alleles of large- effect at the foraging gene in a population from North Carolina, USA

The paper investigates foraging behavior variation in Drosophila melanogaster and finds no significant association between common large-effect alleles at the foraging gene and behavioral differences.