Sporadic occurrence of recent selective sweeps from standing variation in humans as revealed by an approximate Bayesian computation approach.

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During their dispersals over the last 100,000 years, modern humans have been exposed to a large variety of environments, resulting in genetic adaptation. While genome-wide scans for the footprints of positive Darwinian selection have increased knowledge of genes and functions potentially involved in human local adaptation, they have globally produced evidence of a limited contribution of selective sweeps in...

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