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Graham Coop
@gcbias.bsky.social
Popgen @UCDavis @gcbias@ecoevo.social . Posts, grammar, & spelling are my views only. He/him. #OA popgen book github.com/cooplab/popgen-notes/releases
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The world has ~8 billion people. The mutation rate is ~10^-8 per base pair, so every base pair has mutated ~160 times in the past generation alone. Thus, every single (non-lethal) base pair mutation will be present in every large human grouping. 2/n
An allele currently found only in European ancestry sequences will be present in India many times over for example. Rapid population growth means that there’s a vast reservoir of rare alleles within all human “ancestry groups". No rare allele will be specific to one of them. 3/n
GC
Graham Coop
@gcbias.bsky.social
Popgen @UCDavis @gcbias@ecoevo.social . Posts, grammar, & spelling are my views only. He/him. #OA popgen book github.com/cooplab/popgen-notes/releases
1.7k followers592 following366 posts