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Looking for signatures of sex-specific demography and local adaptation on the X chromosome
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Human Population Genetics Team, UMR 7206 EcoAnthropologie MNHN/CNRS/UPD, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
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Genome Biology 2010, 11:203 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-1-203
Published: 28 January 2010Abstract
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.
See related research article: http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/1/R10 webcite.
