Fertility-increasing alleles

1. Fertility-increasing alleles are associated with evolutionary signals consistent with adaptive selection in humans.

   “Fertility-increasing alleles exhibited evolutionary signals consistent with adaptive selection despite having pleiotropic effects on disease-risk.”

   HumansAlleles with pleiotropic effects on disease risk

   Why do we get sick? Genetic evidence for evolutionary trade-offs between fertility, longevity, and disease

   medRxiv·20 Jun 2025Preprint

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