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A general linear model-based approach for inferring selection to climate.
BMC genetics - 22 Sept 2013
Raj Srilakshmi M, Pagani Luca, Gallego Romero Irene, Kivisild Toomas, Amos William
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BACKGROUND: Many efforts have been made to detect signatures of positive selection in the human genome, especially those associated with expansion from Africa and subsequent colonization of all other continents. However, most approaches have not directly probed the relationship between the environment and patterns of variation among humans. We have designed a method to identify regions of the genome under...
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