The deleterious mutation load is insensitive to recent population history

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 220-224

  Simons, Yuval B ^a   Turchin, Michael C ^b   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^b,c   Sella, Guy ^b,d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; DEMOGRAPHY; EXOME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXOME; GENETIC LOAD; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84895867277     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2896     Document Type: Article

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