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+[[!meta title="A common inversion under selection in Europeans."]]
+[[!tag variants]]
+
+Stefansson H, Helgason A, Thorleifsson G, Steinthorsdottir V, Masson G, Barnard J, Baker A, Jonasdottir A, Ingason A, Gudnadottir VG, Desnica N, Hicks A, Gylfason A, Gudbjartsson DF, Jonsdottir GM, Sainz J, Agnarsson K, Birgisdottir B, Ghosh S, Olafsdottir A, Cazier JB, Kristjansson K, Frigge ML, Thorgeirsson TE, Gulcher JR, Kong A, Stefansson K.
+
+Nat Genet. 2005 Feb;37(2):129-37. doi:10.1038/ng1508
+
+A common inversion under selection in Europeans.
+
+[[!pmid 15654335 desc="A 900-kb inversion polymorphism on 17q21.31 that has diverged ~3 million years ago.  One allele is rare exept in Europe, where it is positively selected.  Low-copy repeat sequences were found in the vicinity of the inversion."]]

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 suppress crossovers not only inside the inversion but also close to it (within 1–2 Mb)”
 ([[Machado, Haselkorn and Noor (2007)|biblio/17179068])].
 
+[[Stefansson and coll, 2005||biblio/15654335]] found an inversion in the human
+genome and calculated that it appeared ~3 million years ago, before the
+speciation of _Homo sapiens_.  Low-copy repeated sequences were found in the
+vicinity.
+
 ### Software
 
  - _NanoSV_ ([[Cretu Stancu and coll., 2017|biblio/29109544]]) uses nanopore long