A practical genome scan for population-specific strong selective sweeps that have reached fixation.

Phenotypic divergences between modern human populations have developed as a result of genetic adaptation to local environments over the past 100,000 years. To identify genes involved in population-specific phenotypes, it is necessary to detect signatures of recent positive selection in the human gen...

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Main Authors: Ryosuke Kimura, Akihiro Fujimoto, Katsushi Tokunaga, Jun Ohashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1805687?pdf=render