Genetic Variation and Recent Positive Selection in Worldwide Human Populations: Evidence from Nearly 1 Million SNPs

David López Herráez; Marc Bauchet; Kun Tang; Christoph Theunert; Irina Pugach; Jing Li; Madhusudan R. Nandineni; Arnd Gross; Markus Scholz; Mark Stoneking

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007888

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Genetic Variation and Recent Positive Selection in Worldwide Human Populations: Evidence from Nearly 1 Million SNPs

David López Herráez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: David López Herráez, Marc Bauchet, Kun Tang

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Marc Bauchet ,

Contributed equally to this work with: David López Herráez, Marc Bauchet, Kun Tang

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Kun Tang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: David López Herráez, Marc Bauchet, Kun Tang

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Christoph Theunert,

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Irina Pugach,

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Jing Li,

Affiliation National Drug Screening Laboratory, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing City, China
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Madhusudan R. Nandineni,

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Laboratory of DNA Fingerprinting, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Nampally, Hyderabad, India
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Arnd Gross,

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Markus Scholz,

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Mark Stoneking

* E-mail: stoneking@eva.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Genetic Variation and Recent Positive Selection in Worldwide Human Populations: Evidence from Nearly 1 Million SNPs

David López Herráez,
Marc Bauchet,
Kun Tang,
Christoph Theunert,
Irina Pugach,
Jing Li,
Madhusudan R. Nandineni,
Arnd Gross,
Markus Scholz,
Mark Stoneking

Published: November 18, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007888

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Quite interesting

Posted by Maju on 19 Nov 2009 at 02:06 GMT

The various evolutionary signatures found here are pretty interesting to know about. I disagree with the openly speculative PC graph association with colonization chronology but otherwise it is a valuable read. Thanks.

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