Calibrating a coalescent simulation of human genome sequence variation

Table 1.

Parameters of best-fitting model


Variable parameters

Best-fit model
Ne (ancestral) 12,500
Ne (African) 24,000
Ne (non-African) 7700
T (African expansion) (gens) 17,000
OoA bottleneck (F) 0.085
Asian bottleneck (F) 0.067
European bottleneck (F) 0.020
African bottleneck (F) 0.008
Africa ↔ Europe migration rate (per chromosome) 3.2 × 10-5
Africa ↔ Asia migration rate (per chromosome) 0.8 × 10-5
Recombination hotspot spacing (bp) 8500
Hotspot spacing shape parameter 0.35
Fraction of recombination in hotspots 88%
Gene conversion (initiation prob/bp) 4.5 × 10-9
Fixed parameters

Mutation rate (per base pair per generation) 1.5 × 10-8
Ne (post-agriculture) 100,000
T (out of Africa) (gens) 3500
T (Eur/Asia split) (gens) 2000
T (Asian agriculture) (gens) 400
T (European agriculture) (gens) 350
T (African agriculture) (gens)
200

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