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ArticleScientific reports2017

Allele Age Under Non-Classical Assumptions is Clarified by an Exact Computational Markov Chain Approach.

Bianca De Sanctis, Ivan Krukov, A P Jason de Koning

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 authors.

Bianca De SanctisUniversity of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Ivan KrukovUniversity of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Program (Bioinformatics stream), Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
A P Jason de KoningUniversity of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. jason.dekoning@ucalgary.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-5450-5600

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Determination of the age of an allele based on its population frequency is a well-studied problem in population genetics, for which a variety of approximations have been proposed. We present a new result that, surprisingly, allows the expectation and variance of allele age to be computed exactly (within machine precision) for any finite absorbing Markov chain model in a matter of seconds. This approach makes none of the classical assumptions (e.g., weak selection, reversibility, infinite sites), exploits modern sparse linear algebra techniques, integrates over all sample paths, and is rapidly computable for Wright-Fisher populations up to N

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AllelesGene FrequencyModels, GeneticMutationSelection, GeneticMarkov Chains

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PMID28928413
PMCPMC5605573

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