Adaptation in structured populations and fuzzy boundaries between hard and soft sweeps.

Selective sweeps, the genetic footprint of positive selection, have been extensively studied in the past decades, with dozens of methods developed to identify swept regions. However, these methods suffer from both false positive and false negative reports, and the candidates identified with differen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yichen Zheng, Thomas Wiehe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007426