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Temporal shifts in polygenic traits track major epidemics in Western Eurasia

2026-04-08

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Infectious diseases are recognized as one of the strongest selective forces, exerting a profound influence on the genetic makeup of human populations over time. Recently, large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on immunological traits have underscored the notion that genetic predisposition to infectious diseases likely stems from the contribution of several thousand loci across the human genome. To mode...

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Literature Corpus work: 5163adb7-22db-5fd6-9745-924d89f34c79
DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.07.717059

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