Natural Selection Reduced Diversity on Human Y Chromosomes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wilson Sayres, Melissa A ^a   Lohmueller, Kirk E ^a,b   Nielsen, Rasmus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84893816707     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004064     Document Type: Article

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