Background selection and biased gene conversion affect more than 95% of the human genome and bias demographic inferences

Disentangling the effect on genomic diversity of natural selection from that of demography is notoriously difficult, but necessary to properly reconstruct the history of species. Here, we use high-quality human genomic data to show that purifying selection at linked sites (i.e. background selection,...

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Main Authors: Fanny Pouyet, Simon Aeschbacher, Alexandre Thiéry, Laurent Excoffier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-08-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/36317