Detecting past and ongoing natural selection among ethnically Tibetan women at high altitude in Nepal

Adaptive evolution in humans has rarely been characterized for its whole set of components, i.e. selective pressure, adaptive phenotype, beneficial alleles and realized fitness differential. We combined approaches for detecting polygenic adaptations and for mapping the genetic bases of physiological...

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Main Authors: Jeong, C, Witonsky, DB, Basnyat, B, Neupane, M, Beall, CM, Childs, G, Craig, SR, Novembre, J, Di Rienzo, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2018