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24.03.2010 Hausseminar: Prof. Dr. Peter Pfaffelhuber

The venue of this lecture is: Room -01.026 (Seminarraum) ZBSA

What	Vortrag Lecture Seminar
When	24.03.2010 10:15 24.03.2010 11:00 24.03.2010 from 10:15 to 11:00
Where	Habsburgerstrasse 49, 79104 Freiburg
Contact Name	Prof. Dr. Peter Pfaffelhuber
Contact Email	peter.pfaffelhuber@stochastik.uni-freiburg.de
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Selective Sweeps

Abstract: It is of great biological importance to discover genes under

natural selection. One approach to find these is given by the model of

selective sweeps, introduced by Maynard Smith and Haigh (1974): assume

a strongly beneficial allele entered a population, quickly inreased in

frequency and recently fixed. Because of the short fixation time,

linked neutral variants increase in frequency together with the

beneficial allele. I will discuss recent theoretical findings on the

model of selective sweeps and discuss applications in evolutionary

biology and cancer research.