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Evidence of directional and stabilizing selection in contemporary humans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Jan 2018
Sanjak Jaleal S, Sidorenko Julia, Robinson Matthew R, Thornton Kevin R, Visscher Peter M
Abstract excerpt
Modern molecular genetic datasets, primarily collected to study the biology of human health and disease, can be used to directly measure the action of natural selection and reveal important features of contemporary human evolution. Here we leverage the UK Biobank data to test for the presence of linear and nonlinear natural selection in a contemporary population of the United Kingdom. We obtain phenotypic and...
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