MSVar
documentation

Version 0.4.1.b (7 April 1999)
This program is designed to help the user explore the most probable demographic and genealogical histories consistent with a sample of chromosomes typed at one or more loci. It relies on Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation.

• Linux
• DOS

• Microsat

• There should be no text, characters or extraneous numbers until after the last locus
• Lines have no significance - it is the sequence of numbers that is important
• 1. row: number of loci (it will only read this number - so you can have notes, other unused loci etc underneath
• 2. row: number of alleles (allelic classes) at locus
• 3. row: counts of chromosomes with the same length
• 4. row: length corresponding to counts above (has to be relative to something - I have zero here but could be any number; should be in same units - ie use number of repeats)
• 5. row: number of alles at next locus
• …
• anything you want down here

8
2
28 20
0 7
2
11 29
0 3
3
12 14 6
0   1 2
2
50 6
0 2
2
42 14
0   1
3
33 2 21
0  1  7
3
16 18 22
0   2  3
2
10 46
0   4
anything you want down here

• Beaumont, M.A. (1999) Detecting Population expansion and decline using microsatellites. Genetics, 153, 2013-2029