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Identifying adaptive genetic divergence among populations from genome scans.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2004
Beaumont Mark A, Balding David J
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The identification of signatures of natural selection in genomic surveys has become an area of intense research, stimulated by the increasing ease with which genetic markers can be typed. Loci identified as subject to selection may be functionally important, and hence (weak) candidates for involvement in disease causation. They can also be useful in determining the adaptive differentiation of populations, and...
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