2 papers
q-bio.PE2014
No evidence that natural selection has been less effective at removing deleterious mutations in Europeans than in West Africans
Ron Do, Daniel Balick, Heng Li +3
Non-African populations have experienced major bottlenecks in the time since their split from West Africans, which has led to the hypothesis that natural selection to remove weakly…
q-bio.PE2013
Response to a population bottleneck can be used to infer recessive selection
Daniel J. Balick, Ron Do, David Reich +1
Here we present the first genome wide statistical test for recessive selection. This test uses explicitly non-equilibrium demographic differences between populations to infer the m…