How reliable are empirical genomic scans for selective sweeps?

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.

The population bottleneck models considered in this study. The effective population sizes of the present and ancestral population are denoted Np and Na, respectively. From τ + G to τ generations ago, the population size was reduced to bNa. Note that the picture is not drawn to scale.

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  1. Published in Advance May 10, 2006, doi: 10.1101/gr.5105206 Genome Res. 16: 702-712

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