A gentle introduction to the discrete Laplace method for estimating Y-STR haplotype frequencies

Abstract

Y-STR data simulated under a Fisher-Wright model of evolution with a single-step mutation model turns out to be well predicted by a method using discrete Laplace distributions.

18 pages, 5 figures

References in corpus (1)

• Efficient Forward Simulation of Fisher-Wright Populations with Stochastic Population Size and Neutral Single Step Mutations in Haplotypes