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A numerical framework for genetic hitchhiking in populations of variable size.
Genetics - 3 Mar 2022
Friedlander Eric, Steinrücken Matthias
Abstract excerpt
Natural selection on beneficial or deleterious alleles results in an increase or decrease, respectively, of their frequency within the population. Due to chromosomal linkage, the dynamics of the selected site affect the genetic variation at nearby neutral loci in a process commonly referred to as genetic hitchhiking. Changes in population size, however, can yield patterns in genomic data that mimic the effects of...
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