Why do human diversity levels vary at a megabase scale?

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Published in Genome Res on September 01, 2005

Authors

Ines Hellmann1, Kay Prüfer, Hongkai Ji, Michael C Zody, Svante Pääbo, Susan E Ptak

Author Affiliations

1: Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. hellmann@eva.mpg.de

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