Extreme purifying selection against point mutations in the human genome

Previous work has investigated selection in the coding genome, but it is not as well characterized in the non-coding genome. By analyzing rare variants in 70k genome sequences from gnomAD, the authors detect very strong purifying selection ("ultraselection”) across the human genome, finding it...

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Main Authors: Noah Dukler, Mehreen R. Mughal, Ritika Ramani, Yi-Fei Huang, Adam Siepel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31872-6