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An introgressed haplotype decouples phenotype from genome-wide ancestry

Sahar Javaheri Tehrani Yu-Chi Chen K. van Oers M. Bosse M. Päckert Jochen Martens M. Aliabadian Niloofar Alaei Kakhki T. Gossmann

Jul 2026 · bioRxiv · 0 citations

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This system illustrates how individual genomic regions can retain distinct evolutionary histories long after the surrounding genome has largely homogenized, and how localized introgression can preserve genomic regions associated with phenotypic divergence despite extensive genomic homogenization.

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