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Sep 2026
Accounting for pseudo-replication of Linkage Disequilibrium for contemporary Ne estimation
The Linkage Disequilibrium of unlinked loci can be used to estimate contemporary effective population size (Ne) of one to a few generations ago and is inflated by about 550 times due to pseudo-replication, highlighting the danger of not handling genetic correlation properly.
Tin-Yu J. Hui, Lai-Yin Zhou, A. Burt
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