Stairway Plot 2: demographic history inference with folded SNP frequency spectra

Genome Biol. 2020 Nov 17;21(1):280. doi: 10.1186/s13059-020-02196-9.

Abstract

Inferring the demographic histories of populations has wide applications in population, ecological, and conservation genomics. We present Stairway Plot 2, a cross-platform program package for this task using SNP frequency spectra. It is based on a nonparametric method with the capability of handling folded SNP frequency spectra (that is, when the ancestral alleles of the SNPs are unknown) of thousands of samples produced with genotyping-by-sequencing technologies; therefore, it is particularly suitable for nonmodel organisms.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Alleles
  • Demography*
  • Genomics*
  • Genotyping Techniques
  • Humans
  • Models, Genetic
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide*