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Estimate of within population incremental selection through branch imbalance in lineage trees.
Nucleic acids research - 18 Mar 2016
Liberman Gilad, Benichou Jennifer I C, Maman Yaakov, Glanville Jacob, Alter Idan, Louzoun Yoram
Abstract excerpt
Incremental selection within a population, defined as limited fitness changes following mutation, is an important aspect of many evolutionary processes. Strongly advantageous or deleterious mutations are detected using the synonymous to non-synonymous mutations ratio. However, there are currently no precise methods to estimate incremental selection. We here provide for the first time such a detailed method and...
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