Modern Developments in Theoretical Population Genetics

The legacy of Gustave Malécot

Michel Veuille, Montgomery Slatkin

264 pages, parution le 16/12/2002

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Résumé

This book contains chapters by leading population genetics that summarize many of the recent developments in population genetics theory and its application to genetic data. The book was inspired by a meeting in honour of the late French population geneticist, Gustave Malecot, held at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France, in the summer of 1999. Malecot was, along with R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane, and S. Wright, among the founders of theoretical population genetics. The meeting demonstrated both the great interest in Malecot's work and its relevance to the recent development of the theory of coalescents and the application of that theory to genetic variation observed at the level of DNA sequence. The introductory papers in the book review Malecot's life and his contributions to the theory of population genetics. Later chapters present recent developments in population genetics with particular emphasis on the theory of coalescents. They include discussions of methods for inferring past changes in population size and patterns of genetic exchange, for inferring the ages of individual mutations, and for analysing the relationships among closely linked genes.

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

L'auteur - Michel Veuille

Professor of Integrative Population Biology, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France

L'auteur - Montgomery Slatkin

Montgomery Slatkin, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley.

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Michel Veuille, Montgomery Slatkin
Parution	16/12/2002
Nb. de pages	264
Format	16,5 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	445g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198599630
ISBN13	978-0-19-859963-0