Looking for signatures of sex-specific demography and local adaptation on the X chromosome.
A population study comparing X-linked variation with that of the autosomes reveals that social organization has a clear impact on X chromosome genetic diversity and that the X chromosome shows a signature of local adaptation.
Human Population Genetics Team, UMR 7206 EcoAnthropologie MNHN/CNRS/UPD, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France. heyer@mnhn.fr
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D041321:Chromosomes, Human, X / Q000235:genetics* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D050172:Genes, X-Linked; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D015894:Genome, Human; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008957:Models, Genetic; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012737:Sex Factors