Quantification of GC-biased gene conversion in the human genome
Sylvain Glemin, Peter F Arndt, Philipp W Messer, Dmitri Petrov, Nicolas Galtier, Laurent Duret
This paper quantifies GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC) in the human genome using a new method that accounts for polarization errors and spatial heterogeneity, revealing that gBGC is concentrated in recombination hotspots.
bioRxiv · Oct 9, 2014Evolutionary Biology