Genome-wide signals of positive selection in human evolution

April 6, 2014

http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2014/03/11/gr.164822.113.abstract

“We further demonstrate that the observed signatures of positive selection correlate better with the presence of regulatory sequences, as predicted by the ENCODE Project Consortium, than with the positions of amino acid substitutions. Our results suggest that adaptation was frequent in human evolution and provide support for the hypothesis of King and Wilson that adaptive divergence is primarily driven by regulatory changes.”

Similar to conclusion positive-section section in FunSeq paper

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