How reliable are empirical genomic scans for selective sweeps?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1473181/

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One implication of these results is that, insofar as attributes of the beneficial mutation (e.g., the dominance coefficient) affect the power to detect targets of selection, genomic scans will yield an
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How reliable are empirical genomic scans for selective sweeps? Kosuke M. Teshima,1 Graham Coop, and Molly Przeworski1
Genome Res. 2006 Jun; 16(6): 702–712.
doi: 10.1101/gr.5105206
PMCID: PMC1473181
PMID: 16687733

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