Deep whole-genome sequencing reveals recent selection signatures linked to evolution and disease risk of Japanese

Recent natural selection left signals in human genomes. Here, Okada et al. generate high-depth whole-genome sequence (WGS) data (25.9×) from 2,234 Japanese people of the BioBank Japan Project (BBJ), and identify signals of recent natural selection which overlap variants associated with human traits....

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Main Authors: Yukinori Okada, Yukihide Momozawa, Saori Sakaue, Masahiro Kanai, Kazuyoshi Ishigaki, Masato Akiyama, Toshihiro Kishikawa, Yasumichi Arai, Takashi Sasaki, Kenjiro Kosaki, Makoto Suematsu, Koichi Matsuda, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Michiaki Kubo, Nobuyoshi Hirose, Yoichiro Kamatani
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a7100fc58b45430b96a43754e2ef8a43
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