Selection plays the hand it was dealt: evidence that human adaptation commonly targets standing genetic variation

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Rajiv C. McCoy
Joshua M. Akey
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[1] University of Washington,Department of Genome Sciences
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Genome Biology | / 18卷
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Recent Positive Selection; Soft Selective Sweeps; Schridde; Hard Sweep; Human Evolutionary Biology;
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Using a powerful machine learning approach, a recent study of human genomes has revealed widespread footprints of recent positive selection on standing genetic variation.
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