Overview

Slatkin and Veuille invite leading population geneticists to summarise many of the recent developments in population genetics theory and its application to genetic data. The book has been assembled in honour of the late Gustave Malécot, one of the pioneers of theoretical population genetics. Whilst early chapters summarise Malécot's life and scientific contributions, the rest of the book is devoted to topics that trace their origin in Malécot's work. Several of the contributions describe recent developments in the coalescent theory, which can be viewed as a generalisation of Malécot's method for analysing identity by descent. Other chapters discuss recent developments in the study of geographic variation, genetic linkage, and allele age. The diversity of topics and the effectiveness with which various theoretical methods can be applied to DNA sequence data illustrates both the increasing relevance of theoretical population genetics and the depth of Malécot's insight into fundamental genetic processes. This exciting work will be of interest to population and statistical geneticists as well as a wider audience of evolutionary biologists.

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Author:   Montgomery Slatkin (Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley) ,  Michel Veuille (Professor of Integrative Population Biology, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.448kg
ISBN:  

9780198599630

ISBN 10:   0198599633
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   05 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1: M Veuille and M Slatkin: Introduction 2: Michel Gillois: The scientific work of Gustave Malecot (1911-1998), our common heritage 3: Newton E Morton: Applications and extensions of Malecot's work in human genetics 4: Tomoko Ohta: Usefulness of the identity coefficients for assessing evolutionary forces 5: Naoyuki Takahata and Yoko Satta: Pre-speciation coalescence and the effective size of ancestral populations 6: Wolfgang Stephan and Yuseob Kim: Recent applications of diffusion theory to population genetics 7: R C Griffiths: Ancestral inference from gene trees 8: Joseph Felsenstein: Contrast for a within-species comparative method 9: Noah Rosenberg and Marcus Feldman: The relationship between coalscence times and population divergence times 10: Bryan K Epperson: Spatio-temporal properties of gene genealogies in geographically structured populations 11: Warren Ewens and Norman Kaplan: Linkage analysis and coalescents 12: Magnus Nordborg and Stephen M Krone: Separation of time scales and convergence to the coalescent in structured populations 13: Montgomery Slatkin: The age of alleles

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