Montgomery Slatkin

Joint estimation of contamination, error and demography for nuclear DNA from ancient humans

This paper presents a method to estimate contamination, error, and demographic parameters in ancient human DNA, showing accurate recovery of these parameters even at high contamination rates.

Isolation-By-Distance-and-Time in a stepping-stone model

This study develops a theory of Isolation by Distance and Time in a stepping-stone model and evaluates its impact on principal component analysis plots.

Bayesian inference of natural selection from allele frequency time series

This paper develops a Bayesian method to infer natural selection parameters from allele frequency time series and applies it to horse coat color data, showing demographic history impacts on inference.

Using Ancient Samples in Projection Analysis

This study examines how including ancient samples affects projection analysis by comparing simulations and real ancient genomes against reference populations.

A Hidden Markov Model for Investigating Recent Positive Selection through Haplotype Structure

This paper introduces a hidden Markov model to detect recent positive selection by analyzing haplotype structures and applies it to genomic data to estimate selection coefficients and allele ages.

The projection of a test genome onto a reference population and applications to humans and archaic hominins

The paper introduces a method to project test genomes onto reference populations, showing how population history affects the projection and resolving discrepancies with demographic inferences.

The effective founder effect in a spatially expanding population

The paper quantifies the founder effect in a spatially expanding population using a branching process model and applies it to Arabidopsis thaliana data, finding a stronger founder effect in the Americas.