Rapid recent human evolution and the accumulation of balanced genetic polymorphisms

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 149-155

  Wills, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

balanced genetic polymorphisms; directional selection; incomplete selective sweeps; negative frequency dependent selection

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DIRECTIONAL SELECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGREGATION DISTORTION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79959863255     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2010.1089     Document Type: Article

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