Polygenic adaptation describes a process in which a population adapts through small changes in allele frequencies at hundreds or thousands of loci. Many...

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interest. The prevalance of traits with a polygenic basis poses some issues when researching traits and adaptation in natural populations. Separating the...

in allele frequencies at many loci each with standing variation (polygenic adaptation). Whether or not a selective sweep has occurred can be investigated...

they necessarily represent adaptations. Polygenic traits are controlled by a number of separate genes. Many traits are polygenic, for example human height...

controversial paper published in 2019 claimed that a Jewish sample had higher polygenic scores for educational attainment and cognitive ability than other religious...

molecular evolution Panmixia Outbreeding depression Polymorphism Polygenic adaptation Population size Quantitative genetics Runaway process (Fisherian...

2019). Nordborg M, McCarthy MI, Barton NH, Hermisson J (eds.). "Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide...

The infinitesimal model, also known as the polygenic model, is a widely used statistical model in quantitative genetics and in genome-wide association...

1126/science.1078311. PMID 12493913. S2CID 8127224. Interpreting polygenic scores, polygenic adaptation, and human phenotypic differences Race, Ethnicity (October...