Downloaded from genome.cshlp.org on September 29, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press DARWINIAN AND DEMOGRAPHIC FORCES AFFECTING HUMAN PROTEIN CODING GENES Rasmus Nielsen1, Melissa J. Hubisz2, 3, Ines Hellmann1, Dara Torgerson4, Aida M. Andrés5, Anders Albrechtsen1, Ryan Gutenkunst3, Mark D. Adams6, Michele Cargill7, Adam Boyko3, Amit Indap3, Carlos D. Bustamante3, and Andrew G. Clark8. 1Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Kbh Ø, Denmark and Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720. 2Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 3Biological Statistics & Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4 Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, 920 E. 58th St. CLSC 501, Chicago, IL 60637 5 Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 6 Department of Genetics, BRB-624, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106 7 Navigenics, One Lagoon Dr, Suite 450, Redwood Shores, CA 9406 8 Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Correspondence should be addressed to: Rasmus Nielsen,
[email protected] Downloaded from genome.cshlp.org on September 29, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press ABSTRACT Past demographic changes can produce distortions in patterns of genetic variation that can mimic the appearance of natural selection unless the demographic effects are explicitly removed. Here we fit a detailed model of human demography that incorporates divergence, migration, admixture and changes in population size to directly sequenced data from 9,315 protein coding genes from 20 European-American and 19 African-American individuals.