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Distance from Sub-Saharan Africa Predicts Mutational Load in Diverse Human Genomes
Brenna M. Henn, Laura R Botigue, Stephan Peischl…·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.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1510805112