Lines of Descent

A line of descent in a genealogy, in the sense of Tavare (1984), is a lineage and its tree-like set of descendants, starting from the time of a mutation, up until the time of the next mutation. Line-of-descent models are closely related to the coalescent process, in which the genealogical relationship structure among a set of gene lineages is examined separately from the mutational types of those lineages.

Photo: Noah Rosenberg, March 05, 2018