Sex matters in Massive Parallel Sequencing: Evidence for biases in genetic parameter estimation and investigation of sex determination systems
Laura Benestan, Jean‐Sébastien Moore, Ben J. G. Sutherland, Jérémy Le Luyer, Halim Maaroufi, Clément Rougeux, Éric Normandeau, Nathan Rycroft, Jelle Atema, Les N. Harris, Ross F. Tallman, Spencer J. Greenwood, Fraser K. Clark, Louis Bernatchez
The paper shows that unbalanced sex ratios and sex-linked markers can cause false genetic differentiation signals in population studies, highlighting the need for sex information in genomic analyses.
Molecular Ecology · Jun 28, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics