The genetic cost of neanderthal introgression

Genetics

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 881-891

  Harris, Kelley ^a,b   Nielsen, Rasmus ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Archaic hominins; Deleterious mutation load; Gene flow; Heterosis; Nearly neutral theory

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; EPISTASIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE MUTATION; HAPLOTYPE; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; INBREEDING; INTROGRESSION; MUTATIONAL LOAD; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE MUTATION; ANIMAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC LOAD; GENETICS; HETEROSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RECESSIVE GENE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC LOAD; HUMANS; HYBRID VIGOR; INBREEDING; NEANDERTHALS;

EID: 84979937476     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.186890     Document Type: Article

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