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