TY - JOUR A1 - Pool, John E. A1 - Hellmann, Ines A1 - Jensen, Jeffrey D. A1 - Nielsen, Rasmus T1 - Population genetic inference from genomic sequence variation Y1 - 2010/03/01 JF - Genome Research JO - Genome Research SP - 291 EP - 300 DO - 10.1101/gr.079509.108 VL - 20 IS - 3 UR - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/20/3/291.abstract N2 - Population genetics has evolved from a theory-driven field with little empirical data into a data-driven discipline in which genome-scale data sets test the limits of available models and computational analysis methods. In humans and a few model organisms, analyses of whole-genome sequence polymorphism data are currently under way. And in light of the falling costs of next-generation sequencing technologies, such studies will soon become common in many other organisms as well. Here, we assess the challenges to analyzing whole-genome sequence polymorphism data, and we discuss the potential of these data to yield new insights concerning population history and the genomic prevalence of natural selection. ER -