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Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death

2023-03-15

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Klunk et al. analyzed ancient DNA data from individuals in London and Denmark before, during and after the Black Death [1], and argued that allele frequency changes at immune genes were too large to be produced by random genetic drift and thus must reflect natural selection. They also identified four specific variants that they claimed show evidence of selection including at ERAP2 , for which they estimate a sele...

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Literature Corpus work: fd91b28c-2582-53ad-bbf0-9a2b402e58fa
DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.14.532615

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