Measuring genetic diversity across populations
Niloufar Abhari, Caroline Colijn, Arne Mooers, Paul Tupper · 2024
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Niloufar Abhari, Caroline Colijn, Arne Mooers, and Paul Tupper present 2024 methods to measure gene variety across a set of groups of living things. Variety counts in saving species, yet most tools were built for single groups or for whole species. Treating each group as if all its members were the same can mislead choices about what to save.
The team sets out four ways to stretch a group-level measure to a set of groups: pooling, averaging, pairwise differencing, and fixing. They test the ways on two known measures with gene data from 50 salmon groups that swim up rivers to breed. The best sets of groups to save shift with the method chosen. That gap shows why teams must state plainly which side of variety they mean to guard.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Niloufar Abhari, Caroline Colijn, Arne Mooers, Paul Tupper |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |