Admixture-enabled selection for rapid adaptive evolution in the Americas

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Emily T. Norris · Atlanta Technical College

Lavanya Rishishwar · Atlanta Technical College

Aroon T. Chande · PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute

Andrew B. Conley · Atlanta Technical College

Kaixiong Ye · University of Georgia

Augusto Valderrama-Aguirre · Universidad Santiago de Cali

I. King Jordan

Abstract

The results reported here, considered together with the ubiquity of admixture in human evolution, suggest that admixture serves as a fundamental mechanism that drives rapid adaptive evolution in human populations.

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Evolution and Genetic Dynamics Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

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Published in: Genome biology

Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 29-29

DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-1946-2

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Admixture-enabled selection for rapid adaptive evolution in the Americas

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