Local-ancestry inference is an important step in the genetic analysis of fully sequenced
human genomes. Current methods can only detect continental-level ancestry (ie, European …

Several methods have been proposed to test for introgression across genomes. One method
tests for a genome-wide excess of shared derived alleles between taxa using Patterson's D …

The fastest way to significantly change the composition of a population is through admixture,
an evolutionary mechanism. In animal breeding history, genetic admixture has provided …

Ancestry inference is a frequently encountered problem and has many applications such as
forensic analyses, genetic association studies, and personal genomics. The main goal of …

Background The genetic provenance of domesticated plants and the routes along which
they were disseminated in prehistory have been a long-standing source of debate. Much of …

An open question in the history of human migration is the identity of the earliest Eurasian
populations that have left contemporary descendants. The Arabian Peninsula was the initial …

The human dimension of the Columbian Exchange entailed substantial genetic admixture
between ancestral source populations from Africa, the Americas and Europe, which had …

Ancestry deconvolution, the task of identifying the ancestral origin of chromosomal segments
in admixed individuals, has important implications, from mapping disease genes to …

Learning tasks such as those involving genomic data often poses a serious challenge: the
number of input features can be orders of magnitude larger than the number of training …

Iran, despite its size, geographic location and past cultural influence, has largely been a
blind spot for human population genetic studies. With only sparse genetic information on the …