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Signals interpreted as archaic introgression appear to be driven primarily by faster evolution in Africa

Non-African humans appear to carry a few per cent archaic DNA due to ancient inter-breeding. This modest legacy and its likely recent timing imply that most introgressed fragments will be rare and hence will occur mainly in the heterozygous state. I tested this prediction by calculating D statistics...

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Published in:R Soc Open Sci
Main Author: Amos, William
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428223/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874601
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191900
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