TY - JOUR AU - Gao, Feng AU - Keinan, Alon PY - 2014 DA - 2014/05/20 TI - High burden of private mutations due to explosive human population growth and purifying selection JO - BMC Genomics SP - S3 VL - 15 IS - 4 AB - Recent studies have shown that human populations have experienced a complex demographic history, including a recent epoch of rapid population growth that led to an excess in the proportion of rare genetic variants in humans today. This excess can impact the burden of private mutations for each individual, defined here as the proportion of heterozygous variants in each newly sequenced individual that are novel compared to another large sample of sequenced individuals. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-S4-S3 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-15-S4-S3 ID - Gao2014 ER -