Sentence examples for a recent selection from inspiring English sources

The region of increased homozygosity is broad in African Americans (implying a recent selection event) but narrow in Europeans (perhaps indicating an older selective event, reduced in size by more generations of recombination).

For a "recent" selection event in one, but not the other population, the selected region displays lower H' values for that population and higher S2FST as different alleles approach fixation in the two populations (Table 1, Figure 2A).

This and other essays appear in "Manto," a recent selection of his writings edited by his niece and daughter.

This year, it was "Great Expectations," which also happens to have been a recent selection of Oprah's Book Club, membership nearly two million.

Desserts rotate weekly, but a crème brûlée and seasonal pie (a recent selection included blueberry and cherry) are usually in the mix.

In her introduction to a recent selection of Gallant's stories published by The New York Review of Books, Jhumpa Lahiri writes that "Madeline's Birthday" "sets a precedent for a great deal that followed" in Gallant's work.

The authors suggested that this gene could affect an unidentified phenotype that experienced a strong recent selection in non-African population.

The presence of the CCA cluster in FOSC isolates from six continents and nearly every host and forma specialis sampled further indicates that the cluster arose in response to a widespread, recent selection pressure.

We used the data from the EHH analysis of the 864 Dutch individuals to obtain a crude estimate of the age of expansion of the derived variant as a result of recent selection, the so-called selective sweep.

The chapter ends with a discussion of recent selection on the gene ACTN3, which produces a protein that controls fast-twitch muscle fibers, and how it may be related to athletic ability.

"I think it is clear there's quite a bit of recent selection going on," says population geneticist Jonathan Pritchard of the University of Chicago in Illinois.