Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
The impact of non-neutral synonymous mutations when inferring selection on non-synonymous mutations
Aina Martinez i Zurita, Christopher C Kyriazis, Kirk E Lohmueller
This study shows that selection on synonymous mutations can bias inferences of the DFE for nonsynonymous mutations when using demographic parameters estimated from synonymous variants.
DOI 10.1093/genetics/iyaf200