The Effects of Migration and Assortative Mating on Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium
Noah Zaitlen, Scott Huntsman, Donglei Hu, Melissa Spear, Celeste Eng, Sam S Oh, Marquitta J White, Angel Mak, Adam Davis, Kelly Meade, Emerita Brigino-Buenaventura, Michael A LeNoir, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Esteban G Burchard, Eran Halperin
This paper examines how ancestry-assortative mating affects linkage disequilibrium in admixed populations and shows it can lead to errors in demographic inference.
bioRxiv · May 31, 2016Genetics