Some people’s biology may set them up to birth babies of a certain sex, explaining why a family with multiple children may have all girls or all boys.

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National Health Ratings reports travel nursing is booming post-pandemic, with pay varying by state and specialty, ...

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Large amount of population-scale genetic variation data are being collected in populations. One potentially important biological problem is to infer the population genealogical history from these ...

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Dormancy is a widespread bet-hedging strategy across taxa, enabling organisms to survive natural and anthropogenic disturbances. It fundamentally alters eco-evolutionary processes, including ...

Title: Common atom mixture models in two biostatistical inference problems Abstract: We consider two examples of statistical inference for two related populations. In one example we characterize two ...

Two procedures are developed for choosing a subset of the populations having the property that the chosen subset contains the best population with a prescribed probability. One procedure is based on ...

Traditional GRN inference, based on bulk RNA sequencing, reflects average gene expression across mixed cell populations, obscuring single-cell regulatory dynamics.

Polarization of ancestral and derived polymorphic alleles for inferences of extended haplotype homozygosity in human populations Overview The Polaris package consists of two distinct programs written ...

The developed statistical method paves the way for next generation demographic and selection inference by combining information from several heritable genomic and epigenomic markers.