Sex-biased evolutionary forces shape genomic patterns of human diversity.

Comparisons of levels of variability on the autosomes and X chromosome can be used to test hypotheses about factors influencing patterns of genomic variation. While a tremendous amount of nucleotide sequence data from across the genome is now available for multiple human populations, there has been...

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Main Authors: Michael F Hammer, Fernando L Mendez, Murray P Cox, August E Woerner, Jeffrey D Wall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-09-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2538571?pdf=render