Entries from 2014-10-01 to 1 month

soft sweep

Vitti JJ, Grossman SR & Sabeti PC 2013 Detecting natural selection in genomic data. Nat Rev Genet 47:97-120. LD-based approaches are particularly useful for identifying variants that have undergone a partial or incomplete selective sweep t…

soft sweep

Jensen JD 2014 On the unfounded enthusiasm for soft selective sweeps. Nat Commun 5:5281. the rate of adaptation is not strongly limited by the rate at which newly arising beneficial mutations enter the population empirical and experimental…

Gattuso

http://www.tuttosport.com/calcio/calcio_estero/2014/10/20-309928/

polygenic adaptation

Wollstein A & Stephan W 2014 Adaptive fixation in two-locus models of stabilizing selection and genetic drift. Genetics 198:685-697. selection on an adaptive character involves simultaneous selection at multiple loci controlling the trait …

population bottleneck

Wilson BA, Petrov DA & Messer PW 2014 Soft selective sweeps in complex demographic scenarios. Genetics 198:669-684. population bottlenecks can lead to the removal of all but one adaptive lineage from an initially soft selective sweep "hard…

soft sweep

Fagny M, Patin E, Enard D, Barreiro LB, Quintana-Murci L & Laval G 2014 Exploring the occurrence of classic selective sweeps in humans using whole-genome sequencing data sets. Mol Biol Evol 31:1850-1868. we found that background selection …

soft sweep

Barreiro LB, Ben-Ali M, Quach H, Laval G, Patin E, Pickrell JK, Bouchier C, Tichit M, Neyrolles O, Gicquel B, Kidd JR, Kidd KK, Alcaïs A, Ragimbeau J, Pellegrini S, Abel L, Casanova JL & Quintana-Murci L 2009 Evolutionary dynamics of human…