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SLiM: Simulating Evolution with Selection and Linkage

Philipp W. Messer
- 01 Aug 2013 - 
- Vol. 194, Iss: 4, pp 1037-1039
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SLiM as mentioned in this paper is an efficient forward population genetic simulation designed for studying the effects of linkage and selection on a chromosome-wide scale, which can incorporate complex scenarios of demography and population substructure.
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SLiM is an efficient forward population genetic simulation designed for studying the effects of linkage and selection on a chromosome-wide scale. The program can incorporate complex scenarios of demography and population substructure, various models for selection and dominance of new mutations, arbitrary gene structure, and user-defined recombination maps.

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Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

Antonio F. Pardiñas, +90 more
- 26 Feb 2018 - 
TL;DR: A new genome-wide association study of schizophrenia is reported, and through meta-analysis with existing data and integrating genomic fine-mapping with brain expression and chromosome conformation data, 50 novel associated loci and 145 loci are identified.
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SLiM 3: Forward Genetic Simulations Beyond the Wright–Fisher Model

TL;DR: SLiM 3 is introduced, which contains two key advancements aimed at abolishing limitations in the Wright–Fisher model, and adds support for continuous space, including spatial interactions and spatial maps of environmental variables.
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Genomic evidence of rapid and stable adaptive oscillations over seasonal time scales in Drosophila.

TL;DR: This work hypothesized that environmental fluctuations among seasons in a North American orchard would impose temporally variable selection on Drosophila melanogaster that would drive repeatable adaptive oscillations at balanced polymorphisms, and identified hundreds of polymorphisms whose frequency oscillates among seasons and argued that these loci are subject to strong, temporal variable selection.
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Determinants of genetic diversity

TL;DR: Comparative population genomics is on its way to providing a solution to 'Lewontin's paradox' — the discrepancy between the many orders of magnitude of variation in population size and the much narrower distribution of diversity levels.
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The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

Motoo Kimura
TL;DR: The neutral theory as discussed by the authors states that the great majority of evolutionary changes at the molecular level are caused not by Darwinian selection but by random drift of selectively neutral mutants, which has caused controversy ever since.

The neutral theory of molecular evolution.

Motoo Kimura
TL;DR: The neutral theory as mentioned in this paper states that the great majority of evolutionary changes at the molecular level are caused not by Darwinian selection but by random drift of selectively neutral mutants, which has caused controversy ever since.
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Generating samples under a Wright-Fisher neutral model of genetic variation.

TL;DR: A Monte Carlo computer program is available to generate samples drawn from a population evolving according to a Wright-Fisher neutral model, and the samples produced can be used to investigate the sampling properties of any sample statistic under these neutral models.
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