Research Article

Adaptive Evolution Hotspots at the GC-Extremes of the Human Genome: Evidence for Two Functionally Distinct Pathways of Positive Selection

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Distribution of genes with various GC content and intron length ((a), left) dot plot ((b), right) contour map with nearest neighbour smoothing. (c) Contour map with fixed neighbour smoothing (left, 1%) and (right, 5%). (d, e). Contour map of (d) Ka/Ks and (e) expression levels in SAGE of genes, using different sensitivity cutoffs (left, 1%, and right, 5%).
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