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Mapping by Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium (MALD) is a theoretically powerful technique for mapping complex genetic diseases that is being developed for experimental application. The basic idea of MALD is to utilize the new linkage disequilibrium created in recently admixed pop…

In the last two decades, advances in next-generation sequencing, genome-wide genotyping arrays, and methods to obtain DNA from ancient individuals have propelled the field of population genetics such that it is now an extraordinarily powerful tool for inferring human history. Th…