Comment on "Ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM, a brain size determinant in Homo sapiens" and "Microcephalin, a gene regulating brain size, continues to evolve adaptively in humans".

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5784, 2006, Pages

  Currat, Mathias ^a   Excoffier, Laurent ^a   Maddison, Wayne ^a   Otto, Sarah P ^a   Ray, Nicolas ^a   Whitlock, Michael C ^a   Yeaman, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPM PROTEIN, HUMAN; MCPH1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; BRAIN; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NOTE; ORGAN SIZE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BRAIN; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SIZE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 33746456056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1122712     Document Type: Note

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