Saharon Rosset

..Potential extensions of our methodology include its application to estimation of mutation rates in other genetic regions, like Y chromosome short tandem repeats...

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..Recalculation of the results in Roberts et al. shows that the true predictive capacity of genomes may be higher than their maximal estimates...

..Finally, we argue that weighted designs have enough power to facilitate detection of common alleles, so they can be used as a cornerstone of whole-exome sequencing projects...

..Furthermore, we obtain mutation rate estimates for DYS388, DYS426, DYS457, three STRs for which there were no mutation rate measures until now...

..We describe the data sources, process of discovery, and reasons for initial misidentification of the candidate gene, as well as the lessons that can be learned for future population genetics research...

..2010) have demonstrated that the heritability of height is much higher than the ~10% associated with identified genetic factors. However, Yang et al. (2010) relied on a heuristic for performing estimation in this model...