Sentence examples for hard sweeps from inspiring English sources

In one-genome organisms, hard sweeps by a single novel gene are common.

And indeed, there are not many hard sweeps in the human genome.

These hard sweeps are often assumed to start from a novel mutation.

The genetics of human adaptation: hard sweeps, soft sweeps, and polygenic adaptation.

Hard sweeps do occur in sexually reproducing organisms like people and fruit flies, but soft sweeps may be more usual.

Jonathan Pritchard, a geneticist at the University of Chicago, wrote this year that there seem to have been surprisingly few hard sweeps in recent human evolution, and that therefore much early human adaptation to novel environments since the dispersal from Africa may have been mediated by soft sweeps.

His first scoring shot is a hard sweep for one.

Changes in the selection pressure conferring a higher biological efficacy to a mutation that was previously deleterious are expected to generate hard sweep signatures41.

Lyon is bowling, Carberry smashed a hard sweep shot after Cook had taken a single, and it collected Smith at short leg, it's damaged his hand.

The conventional view is that evolutionary change is generally mediated by a favorable mutation in a gene that then washes through the whole population, a process called a hard sweep because all other versions of the gene are brushed away.

On average, SFS-based statistics were more sensitive to a hard sweep than selection on microsatellites.