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Excess of Deleterious Mutations around HLA Genes Reveals Evolutionary Cost of Balancing Selection
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Deleterious mutations are expected to evolve under negative selection and are usually purged from the population. However, deleterious alleles segregate in the human population and some disease-associated variants are ...