Constructing genomic maps of positive selection in humans: where do we go from here?

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Published in Genome Res on May 01, 2009

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Joshua M Akey1

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1: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. akeyj@u.washington.edu

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