Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Excess of deleterious mutations around HLA genes reveals evolutionary cost of balancing selection
Tobias L Lenz, Victor Spirin, Daniel M Jordan, Shamil R Sunyaev
The paper investigates the impact of balancing selection around HLA genes, finding elevated frequencies of deleterious variants in linked non-HLA genes.
DOI 10.1093/molbev/msw127