Recent and ongoing selection in the human genome

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 857-868

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a   Hellmann, Ines ^a   Hubisz, Melissa ^b   Bustamante, Carlos ^c   Clark, Andrew G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 35348988170     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2187     Document Type: Review

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