Inferring Balancing Selection From Genome-Scale Data

Balancing selection and adaptive evolution

Balancing selection is an umbrella term for several selective mechanisms that result in the maintenance of adaptive genetic diversity in populations.

Signatures of long-term balancing selection in human genomes

A genomic perspective on HLA evolution

Heterogeneity of dN/dS Ratios at the Classical HLA Class I Genes over Divergence Time and Across the Allelic Phylogeny

HLA supertype variation across populations: new insights into the role of natural selection in the evolution of HLA-A and HLA-B polymorphisms