Genetic diversity and genetic burden in humans.

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We discuss categories of genetic diversity in humans. Neutral diversity, population differences in frequencies of genetic markers that we think are invisible to natural selection, provides a passive record of population history but is otherwise of little interest in human biology. Genetic variation related to disease can be separated into mutational noise and variation due to selection, either ongoing selection...

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