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Population Genetics in PNAS

Mar 20, 2007

In the current issue of PNAS, Peter Calabrese from the University of Southern California has a paper on a new population genetics model that includes "recombination hotspots that are heterogeneous across the population and whose population frequency changes with time," according to the abstract.

 

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