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Nature Genetics 41, 8 - 10 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ng0109-8
Evaluating signatures of sex-specific processes in the human genome
Carlos D Bustamante1 & Sohini Ramachandran2
- Carlos D. Bustamante is at the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, 102 Weill Hall, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA.
- Sohini Ramachandran is at the Society of Fellows and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 4100 Biological Laboratories, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Correspondence to: Carlos D Bustamante1 e-mail: cdb28@cornell.edu
Abstract
Comparing levels of genetic variation between the X chromosome and autosomes can reveal the different demographic histories of males and females of a species. Taking this approach, two new studies report that the effective population sizes of men and women differ, but they disagree as to which sex outnumbered the other.
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