Distance from Sub-Saharan Africa Predicts Mutational Load in Diverse Human Genomes
Brenna M. Henn, Laura R Botigue, Stephan Peischl, Isabelle Dupanloup, Mikhail Lipatov, Brian K Maples, Alicia R Martin, Shaila Musharoff, Howard Cann, Michael Snyder, Laurent Excoffier, Jeffrey Kidd, Carlos D Bustamante
The paper examines how distance from Sub-Saharan Africa correlates with mutational load in diverse human populations, finding that populations further from Africa have higher mutation loads due to recessive mutations.
bioRxiv · Oct 23, 2015Genomics