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28.7: Research Directions, Further Reading, Bibliography

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    Research Directions

    Currently, the most exciting trend in the field is the existence of more and more data on both ancient and modern population genetics. With more samples, we can devise more fine statistical tests, and tease more and more information about population composition and history.

    Further Reading

    Bibliography

    [1] Bowcock AM, Ruiz-Linares A, Tomfohrde J, Minch E, Kidd JR, and Cavalli-Sforza LL. High resolution of human evolutionary history trees with polymorphic microsatellites. Nature, 368:455–457, 1994.

    [2] Menozzi. Synthetic maps of human gene frequencies in europeans. Science, 201(4358):768–792, Sep 1978. [3] Rosenberg N. Genetic structure of human populations. Science, 298(5602):2381–2385, 2002.


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