"Selection, Genetic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Differential and non-random reproduction of different genotypes, operating to alter the gene frequencies within a population.
| Descriptor ID |
D012641
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.783
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Selection, Genetic" by people in this website by year, and whether "Selection, Genetic" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2007 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2008 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2015 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Selection, Genetic" by people in Profiles.
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Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance. Nature. 2025 Feb; 638(8050):449-458.
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Genomics of natural populations: gene conversion events reveal selected genes within the inversions of Drosophila pseudoobscura. G3 (Bethesda). 2024 Oct 07; 14(10).
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Selection for robust metabolism in domesticated yeasts is driven by adaptation to Hsp90 stress. Science. 2024 07 26; 385(6707):eadi3048.
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Strength of selection in lung tumors correlates with clinical features better than tumor mutation burden. Sci Rep. 2024 06 03; 14(1):12732.
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Ancestry adjustment improves genome-wide estimates of regional intolerance. Genetics. 2022 05 31; 221(2).
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A general calculus of fitness landscapes finds genes under selection in cancers. Genome Res. 2022 05; 32(5):916-929.
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Fitness Beats Truth in the Evolution of Perception. Acta Biotheor. 2021 Sep; 69(3):319-341.
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High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health. Nature. 2020 10; 586(7831):741-748.
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Genome-wide analyses reveal drivers of penguin diversification. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 09 08; 117(36):22303-22310.
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Extensive Recombination Suppression and Epistatic Selection Causes Chromosome-Wide Differentiation of a Selfish Sex Chromosome in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Genetics. 2020 09; 216(1):205-226.