Evolutionary BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
De novo rates of a Trypanosoma-resistant mutation in two human populations
Daniel Melamed, Revital Shemer, Evgeni Bolotin…·Adi Livnat
The paper measures de novo mutation rates of the APOL1 G1 1024A[->]G mutation in Africans and Europeans, finding it has the highest rate and is more common in Africans where it provides adaptive benefit.
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