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. 2004 Dec 17;6(1):R10. doi: 10.1186/gb-2004-6-1-r10

Figure 2.

Figure 2

B. anthracis SNP frequency spectrum. An excess of rare SNPs are observed in our sample. Ninety-two percent of the SNPs that we discovered have a minor allele frequency less than or equal to 0.25. This finding (92%) is significantly different from the neutral theory expectation (60%). This excess can arise as a consequence of rapid, population expansion from a small founder population and/or the action of natural selection.