Reading the Classics

• Our load of mutations
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• The interaction of selection and linkage. I. general considerations; heterotic models
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• The number of alleles that can be maintained in a finite population
  Kimura M, Crow JF (1964). Genetics 49: 725-738.
• A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. II. Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura
  Lewontin RC, Hubby JL (1966). Genetics 54: 595-609.
• Population structure and human evolution
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• The effect of linkage on limits to artificial selection
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• Evolutionary rate at the molecular level
  Kimura M (1968). Nature 217: 624.
• Number of heterozygous nucleotide sites maintained in a finite population due to steady flux of mutations
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• Protein polymorphism as a phase of molecular evolution
  Kimura M, Ota T (1971). Nature 229: 467-469.
• The sampling theory of selectively neutral alleles
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• Distribution of gene frequency as a test of the theory of the selective neutrality of polymorphisms
  Lewontin RC, Krakauer J (1973). Genetics 74: 175-195.
• The evolutionary advantage of recombination
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• The hitchhiking effect of a favorable gene
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• On the number of segregating sites in genetical models without recombination
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• The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme
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• Evolutionary relationship of DNA sequences in finite populations
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• Nucleotide polymorphism at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of Drosophila melanogaster
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• Estimating F-statistics for the analysis of population structure
  Weir BS, Cockerham CC (1984). Evolution 38: 1358-1370.
• Statistical properties of the number of recombination events in the history of a sample of DNA sequences
  Hudson RR, Kaplan NL (1985). Genetics. 111: 147–164.
• A test of neutral molecular evolution based on nucleotide data
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• Mapping mendelian factors underlying quantitative traits using RFLP linkage maps
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• Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism
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• Gene genealogies and the coalescent process
  Hudson RR (1990). Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology 7: 1-44.
• Adaptive protein evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila
  McDonald JH, Kreitman M (1991). Nature 351: 652-654.
• Statistical tests of neutrality of mutations
  Fu Y-X, Li W-H (1993). Genetics 133: 693-709.
• The effect of deleterious mutations on neutral molecular variation
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• The future of genetic studies of complex human diseases
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• Prospects for whole-genome linkage disequilibrium mapping of common disease genes
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