Evolutionary forces shaping genomic islands of population differentiation in humans

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hofer, Tamara ^a,b   Foll, Matthieu ^a,b   Excoffier, Laurent ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEGRO; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84858711967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-107     Document Type: Article

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