Signatures of adaptive evolution within human non-coding sequence
The human genome is often portrayed as consisting of three sequence types, each distinguished by their mode of evolution. Purifying selection is estimated to act on 2.5 - 5.0% of the genome, whereas virtually all remaining sequence is considered to have evolved neutrally and to be devoid of function...
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Oxford University Press
2006
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