In the journals
Carlson, C. S., Matise, T. C., North, K. E., Haiman, C. a., Fesinmeyer, M. D., Buyske, S., … Kooperberg, C. L. (2013). Generalization and dilution of association results from European GWAS in populations of non-European ancestry: The PAGE study. PLoS Biology, 11(9):e1001661. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001661.
… 25% of tagSNPs identified in EA [European ancestry] GWAS have significantly different effect sizes in at least one non-EA population, and these differential effects were most frequent in African Americans where all differential effects were diluted toward the null.
Peischl, S., Dupanloup, I., Kirkpatrick, M., & Excoffier, L. (2013). On the accumulation of deleterious mutations during range expansions. Molecular Ecology. doi: 10.1111/mec.12524.
We find that deleterious mutations accumulate steadily on the wave front during range expansions, thus creating an expansion load. Reduced fitness due to the expansion load is not restricted to the wave front but occurs over a large proportion of newly colonized habitats.
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