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. 2009 Jan;181(1):187–197. doi: 10.1534/genetics.107.080630

TABLE 8.

Estimating ρ in the presence of biased amplification

X NT pe = 0.01 pe = 0.05 pe = 0.1 pe = 0.15
16× 3 21.7 (7.8) 21.9 (7.8) 21.8 (7.6) 21.7 (7.5)
5 21.9 (7.6) 21.9 (7.7) 21.7 (7.5) 21.6 (7.5)
3 21.8 (7.6) 22.4 (8.2) 20.9 (7.6) 21.2 (7.3)
5 21.7 (7.7) 22.1 (7.6) 22.1 (7.8) 21.1 (7.2)
3 21.5 (7.7) 21.6 (7.5) 22.0 (7.8) 21.1 (7.7)
5 21.0 (7.4) 20.5 (7.1) 21.0 (7.5) 20.5 (7.2)
3 19.5 (6.7) 20.1 (6.9) 19.6 (6.6) 19.5 (6.5)
5 13.4 (7.8) 12.7 (8.22) 12.5 (8.28) 12.1 (8.8)

Here we set the generating values, θ0 = 100 and ρ0 = 20. NT is the number of reads required to use homozygous genotype calls in the inference and pe is the probability that a minor allele is not sequenced. We report mean (and RMSE) of the estimates over 1000 simulations.