Analytical framework for identifying and differentiating recent hitchhiking and severe bottleneck effects from multi-locus DNA sequence data.

Hitchhiking and severe bottleneck effects have impact on the dynamics of genetic diversity of a population by inducing homogenization at a single locus and at the genome-wide scale, respectively. As a result, identification and differentiation of the signatures of such events from DNA sequence data...

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Main Author: Ori Sargsyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3360760?pdf=render