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  • Population Genetics
  • Statistical Genetics
  • Genomics

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  • Haplotypes sharing alleles over extended regions suggest recent common ancestry (identity-by-descent, IBD).
  • Modeling IBD segment lengths is complex due to ancestral trees and recombination processes.
  • Theoretical derivations in population genetics are often challenged by these complexities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the theoretical distribution of detectable identity-by-descent segments.
  • To generalize central limit theorems for IBD rates under various demographic scenarios.
  • To assess the applicability of Gaussian distribution as an approximation for IBD rates in real genetic data.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical derivation of the distribution of detectable IBD segments.
  • Generalization of central limit theorems to flexible demographic models.
  • Efficient simulations to study the distributional behavior of IBD rates.

Main Results:

  • The proportion of detectable IBD segments around a locus is normally distributed for large sample and scaled population sizes.
  • Generalizations cover flexible demographics, multi-way IBD, and multivariate IBD rates.
  • Non-normality in finite samples can lead to anti-conservative error rates in genome-wide scans for excess IBD.

Conclusions:

  • The Gaussian distribution serves as a reasonable approximate model for IBD rates under specific conditions.
  • Understanding IBD rate distributions is crucial for accurate genetic analyses and avoiding false positives.
  • Deviations from normality in finite samples have practical implications for genome-wide association studies.