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ghost introgression: a standalone construct

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Population genetics

gene flow into a population from an unsampled, possibly extinct lineage, detected only through its statistical traces in present genomes.

In population genetics, ghost introgression refers to gene flow into a population from an unsampled, possibly extinct lineage, detected only through its statistical traces in present genomes. This meaning comes from Durvasula (2020) in Science Advances.[1]

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References

Durvasula, A., & Sankararaman, S. (2020). Recovering signals of ghost archaic introgression in African populations. Science Advances, 6(7). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax5097

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