title: Adaptation - not by sweeps alone.
abstract: There has been recent progress in identifying selective sweeps underlying a range of adaptations. Jonathan Pritchard and Anna Di Rienzo argue that many adaptive events in natural populations may occur by polygenic adaptation, which would largely go undetected by conventional methods for detecting selection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Illinois 60615, USA. pritch@uchicago.edu
authors.forename: Jonathan K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Pritchard
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Di Rienzo
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D020412:Multifactorial Inheritance / Q000235:genetics*; D012641:Selection, Genetic