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Daily Archives: 18 Dec, 2014
Sweeping for Sweeps
Reduction in genomic diversity around a site has been attributed to one of two mechanisms – (1) sites linked to positively selected mutant alleles are often `swept’ to fixation, in a process often called genetic hitchhiking, and/or (2) background selection … Continue reading
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