Positive and negative selection on the human genome.

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Published in Genetics on July 01, 2001

Authors

J C Fay1, G J Wyckoff, C I Wu

Author Affiliations

1: Committee on Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.

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