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Human demographic history: refining the recent African origin model.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Dec 2002
Excoffier Laurent
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies of large portions of the human genome support a recent origin of modern humans from an African stock after a bottleneck of moderate size followed by a range expansion out of Africa. Under this simple scenario, patterns of molecular diversity suggest that balancing selection could be more prevalent than positive selection in coding regions.
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