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In particular, for a given population SNP dataset, the joint estimation of the crossover rate, the gene conversion rate and the mean conversion tract length is widely viewed as a very difficult problem.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: In this article, we devise a likelihood-based method using an interleaved hidden Markov model (HMM) that can jointly estimate the aforementioned three parameters fundamental to recombination. Our method significantly improves upon a recently proposed method based on a factorial HMM. We show that modeling overlapping gene conversions is crucial for improving the joint estimation of the gene conversion rate and the mean conversion tract length. We test the performance of our method on simulated data. We then apply our method to analyze real biological data from the telomere of the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, and show that the ratio of the gene conversion rate to the crossover rate for the region may not be nearly as high as previously claimed.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: A software implementation of the algorithms discussed in this article is available at http:\/\/www.cs.berkeley.edu\/\u223cyss\/software.html.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0yss@eecs.berkeley.edu<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp229","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,5,28]],"date-time":"2009-05-28T15:48:54Z","timestamp":1243525734000},"page":"i231-i239","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Joint estimation of gene conversion rates and mean conversion tract lengths from population SNP data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Junming","family":"Yin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Computer Science Division and 2Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA"}]},{"given":"Michael I.","family":"Jordan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Computer Science Division and 2Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA"},{"name":"1 Computer Science Division and 2Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA"}]},{"given":"Yun S.","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Computer Science Division and 2Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA"},{"name":"1 Computer Science Division and 2Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,5,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013112040577200_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"545","DOI":"10.1016\/j.gde.2006.10.009","article-title":"Whole-genome re-sequencing","volume":"16","author":"Bentley","year":"2006","journal-title":"Curr. 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