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Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Shane Brubaker
December 2025
Beginner to intermediate
618 pages
14h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Population Genetics

Population genetics is the study of the changes in the frequency of alleles in a population on the basis of selection, drift, mutation, and migration.

In this chapter, we will focus on studying population genetics using Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs). We will learn about genetic association analysis, which focuses on whether certain traits in a larger population can be tied back to particular genetic variants in those individuals. First, a word on file formats in this field. There is no such thing as a default file format for population genetics data. There is a plenitude of formats in this field, most of them developed with a specific application in mind; therefore, none are generically applicable. Some of the ...

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