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	系統発生学的独立対比法	Coalescent Theory
分野	遺伝学	遺伝学
系統	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
提唱年	1985	1982
提唱者	Joseph Felsenstein	John Kingman
種類	Statistical comparative method	Stochastic process model
原典	Felsenstein, J. (1985). Phylogenies and the comparative method. American Naturalist, 125(1), 1–15.	Kingman, J. F. C. (1982). The coalescent. Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 13(3), 235–248.
別名	PIC, Contrasts method, Felsenstein's contrasts	Kingman Coalescent, n-coalescent
関連	3	4
概要	Phylogenetic Independent Contrasts (PIC) is a comparative statistical method that tests for associations between traits across species while accounting for shared evolutionary history. Developed by Joseph Felsenstein in 1985, PIC solves a fundamental problem in comparative biology: related species share traits due to common ancestry, not independent evolution, which violates the statistical assumption of independence. By comparing trait differences between sister species pairs, PIC removes the confounding effects of phylogenetic relatedness and enables robust evolutionary inferences.	Coalescent theory is a probabilistic framework that traces the genealogical history of DNA sequences backward in time to their most recent common ancestor. Developed by John Kingman in 1982, this method forms the foundation of modern population genetics, enabling researchers to understand demographic events, estimate genetic parameters, and reconstruct evolutionary histories from modern genetic data.