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Evidence for Hitchhiking of Deleterious Mutations within the Human Genome

Deleterious mutations present a significant obstacle to adaptive evolution. Deleterious mutations can inhibit the spread of linked adaptive mutations through a population; conversely, adaptive substitutions can increase the frequency of linked deleterious mutations and even result in their fixation....

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Autores principales: Chun, Sung, Fay, Justin C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21901107
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002240