Entries from 2015-04-01 to 1 month

soft sweep

Schrider DR, Mendes FK, Hahn MW & Kern AD 2015 Soft shoulders ahead: spurious signatures of soft and partial selective sweeps result from linked hard sweeps. Genetics, in press. doi:10.1534/genetics.115.174912 we know little about the sour…

population expansion

Sousa V, Peischl S & Excoffier L 2014 Impact of range expansions on current human genomic diversity. Curr Opin Genet Dev 29:22-30. gene surfing can occur on standing variation, and it is not restricted to neutral mutations it is not restri…

population expansion

Lohmueller KE 2014 The distribution of deleterious genetic variation in human populations. Curr Opin Genet Dev 29:139-146. recent population growth results in an influx of new deleterious mutations into the population selection has not yet…

population expansion

Do R, Balick D, Li H, Adzhubei I, Sunyaev S & Reich D 2015 No evidence that selection has been less effective at removing deleterious mutations in Europeans than in Africans. Nat Genet 47:126-131.