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从时间序列的身份-按-后裔部分估计有效人口规模轨迹

Yilei Huang^1,2, Shai Carmi³, Harald Ringbauer¹

¹Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04317, Germany.

|January 24, 2025

概括

这项研究介绍了Ttne,这是一种分析古代DNA (aDNA) 的新方法,以了解随着时间的推移人口规模的变化. ttne通过在DNA中计算不同的样本时间来改善人口推断,揭示了古代文化的人口增长.

科学领域:

人口遗传学人口遗传学
古代DNA分析古代DNA分析
人口统计推理人口统计推理

背景情况:

认同后裔 (IBD) 分段表明共同的祖先,并用于现代DNA的人口推断.
最近的进展允许在古代DNA (aDNA) 中进行IBD分析,使历史人口研究成为可能.
现有的aDNA人口统计方法通常假定同时采样,这对于时间序列数据来说是不现实的.

研究的目的:

开发一种新的方法,Ttne (Time-Transect Ne),使用时间跨度采样从aDNA推断有效的人口规模轨迹.
通过整合跨时间序列的IBD共享 aDNA数据来增强人口推理的解决方案.
解决和建模在实证aDNA分析中普遍存在的IBD检测错误.

主要方法:

开发了Ttne,一种建模时间跨度采样的方法,用于推断人口规模轨迹.
使用模拟来验证与当代方法相比,时间序列IBD共享的更高分辨率.
实施了一种方法来估计和建模IBD检测错误,以便进行可靠的分析.

主要成果:

模拟表明,时间序列IBD共享提供了更高的分辨率来推断最近的有效人口规模波动.
ttne被应用于铜器时代绳索陶器文化和中世纪英格兰的DNA时间截图.
这两项案例研究都揭示了人口增长的证据,与考古发现一致.

结论:

ttne有效地建模了时间跨度采样,以便从DNA中准确地推断人口统计数据.
该方法成功地确定了不同古代欧洲人口的人口增长.
这种方法提高了我们使用aDNA中IBD共享重建详细人口历史的能力.

关键词:

古代的 DNA DNA 古代的 DNA DNA 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.进化生物学是进化的生物学.人口遗传学人口遗传学统计遗传学统计遗传学

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