Evidence for Widespread Convergent Evolution around Human Microsatellites

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Edward J Vowles,

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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William Amos

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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About the Authors

Edward J Vowles: Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
William Amos: Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.

EJV and WA conceived and designed the experiments. EJV performed the experiments and analyzed the data. EJV and WA wrote the paper.

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Sequence motif analysis
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