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Population genetics is a part of evolutionary studies. Now with human genome sequences, population genomics emerged, starting from the analysis of multiple human mitochondrial DNA genome sequences. It was extended to nuclear DNA of human individuals, and genome-wide SNP data comparison is now flourishing, rapidly followed by comparisons of personal genomes. As the genome sequencing cost is becoming drastically reduced, population genomics will definitely expand to many other organisms. We discuss both methods and examples of population genomics in this chapter focusing human genomes. However, contents of this chapter can be applicable to population genomics of any diploid organisms.

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Saitou, N. (2018). Human Population Genomics. In: Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics. Computational Biology, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92642-1_18

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