Ping Liang

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Does a fixed or high frequency variant always indicate a positive selection?

Many variants, such as the millions of mobile element insertions (MEIs), exist at a very high frequency with the majority become fixed in the human populations. Since the presence of MEIs happens...

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Genomic variants shown as deletions of entire introns: RNA contamination vs. possible processed pseudogenes?

In analysis of human genomic variants based on either WGS or WES, I often came across high impact variants shown as deletion of introns at their entirety. Since there is no known molecular...

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