A scan for positively selected genes in the genomes of humans and chimpanzees.

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Published in PLoS Biol on May 03, 2005

Authors

Rasmus Nielsen1, Carlos Bustamante, Andrew G Clark, Stephen Glanowski, Timothy B Sackton, Melissa J Hubisz, Adi Fledel-Alon, David M Tanenbaum, Daniel Civello, Thomas J White, John J Sninsky, Mark D Adams, Michele Cargill

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1: Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. rasmus@binf.ku.dk

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