genomics question 1. there are huge numbers of SNPs thats tricky 2. there are 23 or so chromosomes 3. roughly, chromosomes can change by mutation or by recombination 4. recombination is relatively infrequent for adjacent sequences 5. mutation is relatively infrequent
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so A. seems like within a population there will probably a relatively (compared to SNPs especially) small number of consistently-appearing longer segments across generations, especially if some loci are quite a lot more likely to be the site of crossing over than others?
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B. if you can identify these groups you might have a better time using them as features (vs SNPs) especially given eg role of introns in the regulation of expression?
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C. Seems like you could deduce the traits of (successful) founders of populations from these traits a la linguistic archaeology?
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I have no idea what I'm talking about
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Replying to @eigenrobot
You can’t discover laws of physics by statistical analysis.
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Isn't that actually how we figured out thermodynamics, though?
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