Evolutionary genetics as a tool to target genes involved in phenotypes of medical relevance

There is an increasing interest in detecting genes, or genomic regions, that have been targeted by natural selection. Indeed, the evolutionary approach for inferring the action of natural selection in the human genome represents a powerful tool for predicting regions of the genome potentially associ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Heyer, Evelyne, Quintana-Murci, Lluis
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352415/