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The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation
Current Biology · 2010 · Vol. 20(4) · pp. R208–R215
Jonathan K. Pritchard✉(Howard Hughes Medical Institute)Joseph K. Pickrell(University of Chicago)Graham Coop(University of California, Davis)
Digestive system and related healthNutrition, Genetics, and DiseaseRace, Genetics, and SocietyBiologyAdaptation (eye)Evolutionary biologyGeneticsNeuroscience
MeSH terms
Adaptation, BiologicalGenetics, PopulationHumansSelection, GeneticMultifactorial Inheritance
Funding
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institutes of Health
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