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Fitness benefit plays a vital role in the retention of the Pi-ta susceptible alleles

The paper shows that susceptible Pi-ta alleles are retained due to their fitness benefit by acting as an off-switch for immune signaling.

Inference of multiple-wave population admixture by modeling decay of linkage disequilibrium with polynomial functions

This study introduces iMAAPs, a method to infer multiple-wave population admixture by modeling ALD decay with polynomial functions, showing improved performance over existing methods.