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

Journal: Genome biology
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Abstract

Using a powerful machine learning approach, a recent study of human genomes has revealed widespread footprints of recent positive selection on standing genetic variation.

Authors

  • Rajiv C McCoy
    Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
  • Joshua M Akey
    Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA. akeyj@uw.edu.