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Neutral behavior of shared polymorphism
Pages 40-44

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... Allele sharing was Eat notLed in constructs geno trees of ~HC class I angles and Ending Bat the human and chimp alleles are often more closely related than that aro . , to Saber alleles (4, 3~.
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... Interd~it~tion of alleles Tom different species continues as more Lucius arc added 10 the list sequenced i-~[oIes (Iffy. Closely related species Miami he cxpocted to sham higher Icvels of shared polymorphism.
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Key Terms

  • polymorphic sites
  • shared polymorphic
  • single species
  • common ancestor
  • null distribution

  • order statistics
  • highly diverse
  • distribution obtained
  • polymorphism appears
  • suppose species

  • related species
  • expected persistence
  • recent time
  • absorption occurs
  • amino acid

  • allele sharing
  • acid level
  • trees yield
  • plots simulated
  • demographic processes

  • neutral allele
  • natural selection
  • lineages expected
  • complex expression
  • seven chimpanzee

  • occurs sooner
  • observing shared
  • chimp alleles
  • closely related
  • molecular data


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