Adaptation - Not by sweeps alone

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 665-667

  Pritchard, Jonathan K ^a   Di Rienzo, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77956885609     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2880     Document Type: Note

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