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Natural Selection Reduced Diversity on Human Y Chromosomes

The human Y chromosome exhibits surprisingly low levels of genetic diversity. This could result from neutral processes if the effective population size of males is reduced relative to females due to a higher variance in the number of offspring from males than from females. Alternatively, selection a...

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Autores principales: Wilson Sayres, Melissa A., Lohmueller, Kirk E., Nielsen, Rasmus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3886894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24415951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004064