A high density of X-linked genes for general cognitive ability: A run-away process shaping human evolution?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 697-701

  Zechner, Ulrich ^a   Wilda, Monika ^b   Kehrer Sawatzki, Hildegard ^b   Vogel, Walther ^b   Fundele, Rainald ^c   Hameister, Horst ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Dept of Human Genetics ^*  (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; BONE DYSPLASIA; CLEFT PALATE; COGNITION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GROWTH RETARDATION; HAPLOTYPE; INFERTILITY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035577350     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(01)02446-5     Document Type: Review

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