Selection and explosive growth alter genetic architecture and hamper the detection of causal rare variants

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Figure 3.
Figure 3.

The cumulative proportion of the genetic variance, Vx/V1, explained by variants under allele frequency x for the European “growth” (A,C) and “explosive growth” (B,D) models of human history under two different values of τ for a sample of n = 104 chromosomes.

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  1. Genome Res. 26: 863-873

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