GenomicsGeneticsPeer-reviewed
Relaxed selection during a recent human expansion
Stephan Peischl, Isabelle Dupanloup, Adrien Foucal…·Laurent Excoffier
The paper examines genomic diversity in French Canadians to show that range expansion led to relaxed selection, increasing the frequency of deleterious mutations in colonizing populations.
DOI 10.1534/genetics.117.300551