Genome-wide scans for footprints of natural selection

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1537, 2010, Pages 185-205

  Oleksyk, Taras K ^a,b   Smith, Michael W ^c   O'Brien, Stephen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Genomes; genome wide selection scans; Human populations; Vertebrate species; Whole genome sequences

Indexed keywords

GENE; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HOMINID; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 75449100968     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0219     Document Type: Review

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