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MinireviewLooking for signatures of sex-specific demography and local adaptation on the X chromosomeEvelyne Heyer  and Laure Segurel Human Population Genetics Team, UMR 7206 EcoAnthropologie MNHN/CNRS/UPD, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France  author email corresponding author email
Genome Biology 2010,
11:203doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-1-203
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28 January 2010 |
Subject areas: Evolution, Genetics, Genome studies Abstract
A population study comparing X-linked variation with that of the autosomes reveals that social organization has a clear impact on X chromosome genetic diversity and that the X chromosome shows a signature of local adaptation.
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