Robustness results for the coalescent
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 35 (2) , 438-447
- https://doi.org/10.1239/jap/1032192859
Abstract
A variety of convergence results for genealogical and line-of-descendent processes are known for exchangeable neutral population genetics models. A general convergence-to-the-coalescent theorem is presented, which works not only for a larger class of exchangeable models but also for a large class of non-exchangeable population models. The coalescence probability, i.e. the probability that two genes, chosen randomly without replacement, have a common ancestor one generation backwards in time, is the central quantity to analyse the ancestral structure.Keywords
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