Microcephalin, a gene regulating brain size, continues to evolve adaptively in humans

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5741, 2005, Pages 1717-1720

  Evans, Patrick D ^a   Gilbert, Sandra L ^a   Mekel Bobrov, Nitzan ^a   Vallender, Eric J ^a   Anderson, Jeffrey R ^a   Vaez Azizi, Leila M ^a   Tishkoff, Sarah A ^b   Hudson, Richard R ^a   Lahn, Bruce T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; PLASTICITY;

HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY LINEAGE; MICROCEPHALIN;

GENES;

MICROCEPHALIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN; GENE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MICROCEPHALIN GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOLUTION; EXONS; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROCEPHALY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SIZE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 24644507039     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1113722     Document Type: Article

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