Recent human effective population size estimated from linkage disequilibrium

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Figure 2.
Figure 2.

Comparison of the estimate of Ne from each of the labeled 23 chromosomes for the JPT and HCB population (Method 1). The X-axis shows the effective population size for each autosome and the X chromosome estimated from the JPT sample using a nonlinear regression of r2 on physical distance between pairs of SNPs. The Y-axis shows the estimates of Ne for each chromosome from HCB sample. The fitted linear regression line fits nearly perfectly, presumably reflecting common ancestry of the two populations.

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  1. Genome Res. 17: 520-526

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