PLoS Computational Biology has an article in the pipeline on detecting natural selection in humans in chimps. The authors looked for genes evolving at unequal rates between the two species and genes with signals of positive selection. I have not read the entire article, but it looks like a good attempt to distinguish actual positive selection from changes in selective constraint.
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Even More on Detecting Natural Selection
Category: Evolution • Genomics • Molecular Evolution • Population Genetics
Posted on: March 17, 2006 2:39 PM, by RPM
