Strong Selective Sweeps on the X Chromosome in the Human-Chimpanzee Ancestor Explain Its Low Divergence

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Julien Y. Dutheil ,

* E-mail: julien.dutheil@univ-montp2.fr

Current address: Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Affiliation Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution–Montpellier (ISEM), UMR 5554, CNRS, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
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Kasper Munch,

Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Kiwoong Nam,

Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Thomas Mailund,

Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Mikkel H. Schierup

Affiliations Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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