The Ashkenazi Jewish population has long been considered a genetic isolate and presumed to have the genetic signatures of founder effects and isolation. We genotyped a large cohort of Ashkenazi Jews a
BackgroundPhylogenetic mitochondrial DNA haplogroups are highly partitioned across global geographic regions. A unique exception is the X haplogroup, which has a widespread global distribution without
This item contains all forward simulations of background selection under human-like parameters from Dan Schrider's paper comparing patterns of variation produced by hitchhiking to those produced by