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A survey of methods and tools to detect recent and strong positive selection

Positive selection occurs when an allele is favored by natural selection. The frequency of the favored allele increases in the population and due to genetic hitchhiking the neighboring linked variation diminishes, creating so-called selective sweeps. Detecting traces of positive selection in genomes...

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Autores principales: Pavlidis, Pavlos, Alachiotis, Nikolaos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28405579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40709-017-0064-0