2 papers
q-bio.PE2014
High burden of private mutations due to explosive human population growth and purifying selection
Feng Gao, Alon Keinan
Recent studies have shown that human populations have experienced a complex demographic history, including a recent epoch of rapid population growth that led to an excess in the pr…
q-bio.PE2013
Neutral genomic regions refine models of recent rapid human population growth
Elodie Gazave, Li Ma, Diana Chang +8
Human populations have experienced dramatic growth since the Neolithic revolution. Recent studies that sequenced a very large number of individuals observed an extreme excess of ra…