A high resolution genome-wide scan for significant selective sweeps: an application to pooled sequence data in laying chickens.

In most studies aimed at localizing footprints of past selection, outliers at tails of the empirical distribution of a given test statistic are assumed to reflect locus-specific selective forces. Significance cutoffs are subjectively determined, rather than being related to a clear set of hypotheses...

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Main Authors: Saber Qanbari, Tim M Strom, Georg Haberer, Steffen Weigend, Almas A Gheyas, Frances Turner, David W Burt, Rudolf Preisinger, Daniel Gianola, Henner Simianer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0049525&type=printable
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