5 | Acknowledgements
We thank Frédéric Austerlitz, Erkan O. Buzbas, Antoine Cools, Flora Jay, Evelyne Heyer, Margueritte Lapierre, Guillaume Laval, Nina Marchi, Etienne Patin, Noah A. Rosenberg, and Zachary A. Szpiech for useful comments and discussions. We warmly thank Olivier Hardy for help designing the microsatellite mutation model implemented inMetHis . We thank three anonymous reviewers and the editor for recommendations having improved the article. This project was funded in part by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche project METHIS (ANR 15-CE32-0009-01). CFL was funded in part by the Sven and Lilly Lawski’s Foundation (N2019-0040).