You can read more about Peter and I’s paper [arXived here] in the guest post we wrote over at Haldane’s Sieve. There’s a nice discussion on some of the technical details in the comments there.
Distinguishing between Selective Sweeps from Standing Variation and from a De Novo Mutation Peter et al
Demographic Inference Using Spectral Methods on SNP Data, With an Analysis of the Human out-of-Africa Expansion.
Lukic S, Hey J. Genetics 2012
For wednesday we’ll read Skoglund et al Science 2012
This week we’ll read Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height by Yang et al.
see also this commentary by Visscher’s groups.
For Wednesday we’ll read:
A model-based approach for analysis of spatial structure in genetic data
by Yang et al.
