Pervasive hitchhiking at coding and regulatory sites in humans.

Much effort and interest have focused on assessing the importance of natural selection, particularly positive natural selection, in shaping the human genome. Although scans for positive selection have identified candidate loci that may be associated with positive selection in humans, such scans do n...

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Main Authors: James J Cai, J Michael Macpherson, Guy Sella, Dmitri A Petrov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2613029?pdf=render