Many human genomes shaped by past events that caused sharp dips in the population (IMAGE)

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Many human genomes shaped by past events that caused sharp dips in the population

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Representation of the impact of a founder event on genetic data with an initial population made of various genomic segments that were inherited identical-by-descent (IBD) from a common ancestor. Following a founder event, the diversity of IBD segments is reduced and due to recombination events, the length of these IBD segments shortens gradually—these two parameters are thus informative about the founder strength and age, respectively.

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Rémi Tournebize and Priya Moorjani (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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