Journal Club 4/21: Balancing Selection

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This week we’ll be reading about the maintenance of variation through balancing selection:

Bergland AO, Behrman EL, O’Brien KR, Schmidt PS, Petrov DA. 2014. Genomic evidence of rapid and stable adaptive oscillation over seasonal time scales in Drosophila. PLoS Genet. 10(11): e1004775.

Turchin MC, Chiang CWK, Palmer CD, Sankararaman S, Reich D, GIANT Consortium, Hirschhorn JN. 2012. Evidence of widespread selection on standing variation in Europe at height-associated SNPs. Nat. Genet. 44(9): 1015-1021.