On the unfounded enthusiasm for soft selective sweeps

Jeffrey D Jensen ()
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Jeffrey D Jensen: School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Patterns of genomic variation can be used to identify targets of positive selection but understanding their mode of evolution is challenging. This review discusses theory and empirical evidence regarding soft sweep models and concludes that the recent enthusiasm for soft sweeps is unfounded.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6281

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