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Estimate Sample Size for Population Genomic Studies

v1.0.2 · Apr 2, 2025 · Apache License (>= 2)

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Estimate sample sizes needed to capture target levels of genetic diversity from a population (multivariate allele frequencies) for applications like germplasm conservation and breeding efforts. Compares bootstrap samples to a full population using linear regression, employing the R-squared value to represent the proportion of diversity captured. Iteratively increases sample size until a user-defined target R-squared is met. Offers a parallelized R implementation of a previously developed 'python' method. All ploidy levels are supported. For more details, see Sandercock et al. (2024) <doi:10.1073/pnas.2403505121>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies doParallel dplyr foreach Rdpack vcfR (>= 1.15.0) castgen

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new 1.0.2 Mar 10, 2026

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