Harly Durbin

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Abstract The Caribbean is a genetically diverse region with heterogeneous admixture compositions influenced by local island ecologies, migrations, colonial conflicts, and demographic histories. The Commonwealth of Dominica is a mountainous island in the Lesser Antilles historically known to harbor communities with unique patterns of migration, mixture, and isolation.

Detecting environmental associations using envGWAS Using an equivalent form of model to GPSM, but with continuous environmental variables (30 year normals for temperature, precipitation, and elevation) or statistically-derived discrete ecoregions as the dependent variable (rather than birth date in GPSM) allows us to identify environmentally-associated loci that have been subjected to artificial and, perhaps in this context more importantly, natural selection [49].