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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★ 1.5k cited
Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson, Alissa Mittnik +117
We sequenced genomes from a 7,000 year old early farmer from Stuttgart in Germany, an 8,000 year old hunter-gatherer from Luxembourg, and seven 8,000 year old hun…
q-bio.PE2012★ 4 cited
The date of interbreeding between Neandertals and modern humans
Sriram Sankararaman, Nick Patterson, Heng Li +2
Comparisons of DNA sequences between Neandertals and present-day humans have shown that Neandertals share more genetic variants with non-Africans than with Africans. This could be…