"numerous small-effect factors on a single chromosome can appear as spurious large-effect loci. This mapping artifact persists even for large samples and dense markers and may cause underreporting of polygenicity from genetic crosses."
The best #GenPop papers are not in glam journals, they are in @PeerCommunityJournal. If you haven't already done so, add @PeerCommunityJournal to your bibliographic search engine immediately, or you'll miss out on the best of #PopGen.
And this article is a prime example of when #science becomes "flashy" at the expense of correctness. No journalists to blame. This is the authors', the editors', the reviewers' and the magazine's fault.
Happy to see this out! Not only because Martin Petr's tool #slendr is incredibly useful for anyone doing evolutionary #genetic simulations, but also because it's been peer reviewed though a system that doesn't profiteer off academic work, nor impose paywalls on its readers!
Thanks Emiliano Trucchi, Liisa Loog, 2 anonymous reviewers and @PeerCommunityIn !
Come and make us stronger! Full #professorship at Uni #Mainz. Lots of recent turnover has happened here with fantastic young faculty, we have a lot of exciting plans for the future!