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. 2004 Jul;167(3):1461–1473. doi: 10.1534/genetics.103.025742

Estimating recombination rates using three-site likelihoods.

Jeffrey D Wall 1
PMCID: PMC1470930  PMID: 15280255

Abstract

We introduce a new method for jointly estimating crossing-over and gene conversion rates using sequence polymorphism data. The method calculates probabilities for subsets of the data consisting of three segregating sites and then forms a composite likelihood by multiplying together the probabilities of many subsets. Simulations show that this new method performs better than previously proposed methods for estimating gene conversion rates, but that all methods require large amounts of data to provide reliable estimates. While existing methods can easily estimate an "average" gene conversion rate over many loci, they cannot reliably estimate gene conversion rates for a single region of the genome.

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