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The impact of recent population history on the deleterious mutation load in humans and close evolutionary relatives
2016-09-06
Abstract excerpt
Over the past decade, there has been both great interest and confusion about whether recent demographic events—notably the Out-of-Africa-bottleneck and recent population growth—have led to differences in mutation load among human populations. The confusion can be traced to the use of different summary statistics to measure load, which lead to apparently conflicting results. We argue, however, that when statistics...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 49b811d3-8588-5d65-a1f4-86eebdc85fac
- DOI
- 10.1101/073635