Interrogating 11 fast-evolving genes for signatures of recent positive selection in worldwide human populations.

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Published in Mol Biol Evol on July 03, 2009

Authors

Andrés Moreno-Estrada1, Kun Tang, Martin Sikora, Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, Ferran Casals, Arcadi Navarro, Francesc Calafell, Jaume Bertranpetit, Mark Stoneking, Elena Bosch

Author Affiliations

1: Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

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