The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Pritchard, Jonathan K ^a   Pickrell, Joseph K ^a   Coop, Graham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 76749097550     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.055     Document Type: Review

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