A High Resolution Genome-Wide Scan for Significant Selective Sweeps: An Application to Pooled Sequence Data in Laying Chickens

In most studies aimed at localizing footprints of past selection, outliers at tails of the empirical distribution of a given test statistic are assumed to reflect locus-specific selective forces. Significance cutoffs are subjectively determined, rather than being related to a clear set of hypotheses...

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Main Authors: Qanbari, Saber, Strom, Tim M., Haberer, Georg, Weigend, Steffen, Gheyas, Almas A., Turner, Frances, Burt, David W., Preisinger, Rudolf, Gianola, Daniel, Simianer, Henner
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510216/

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