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Can we detect polygenic selection within Europe without being fooled by population structure?

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Davide Piffer
Jan 07, 2026
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Why would northern Europeans be genetically predisposed to a darker retina? And can we detect that kind of within-Europe divergence without the usual stratification traps?

Detecting polygenic adaptation in humans has proven to be harder than many expected. Over the past decade, several studies reported geographic patterns in polygenic scores for traits s…

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