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SUBMITTER: Pickrell JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2675971 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Genome research 20090323 5
Genome-wide scans for recent positive selection in humans have yielded insight into the mechanisms underlying the extensive phenotypic diversity in our species, but have focused on a limited number of populations. Here, we present an analysis of recent selection in a global sample of 53 populations, using genotype data from the Human Genome Diversity-CEPH Panel. We refine the geographic distributions of known selective sweeps, and find extensive overlap between these distributions for population ...[more]