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The Structure of Genealogies in the Presence of Purifying Selection: A "Fitness-Class Coalescent"
Aleksandra M. Walczak, Lauren E. Nicolaisen, Joshua B. Plotkin +1
Compared to a neutral model, purifying selection distorts the structure of genealogies and hence alters the patterns of sampled genetic variation. Although these distortions may be…
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The structure of allelic diversity in the presence of purifying selection
Michael M. Desai, Lauren E. Nicolaisen, Aleksandra M. Walczak +1
In the absence of selection, the structure of allelic diversity is described by the elegant sampling formula of Ewens. This formula has helped shape our expectations of empirical p…