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Abstract
Analysis of the intensely studied HIV-1 gp120 V3 protein region reveals that the among-population mean site-specific frequency of an amino acid is a measure of its relative marginal fitness. This surprising result may arise if populations are displaced from mutation-selection equilibrium by fluctuating selection and if the probability of fixation of a beneficial amino acid is proportional to its selection coefficient.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16849594 PMCID: PMC1667049 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.062885
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genetics ISSN: 0016-6731 Impact factor: 4.562