Evidence that the adaptive allele of the brain size gene microcephalin introgressed into Homo sapiens from an archaic Homo lineage

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 48, 2006, Pages 18178-18183

  Evans, Patrick D ^a   Mekel Bobrov, Nitzan ^a   Vallender, Eric J ^a   Hudson, Richard R ^a   Lahn, Bruce T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture; Human evolution; Introgression

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE POOL; GENETIC DRIFT; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MICROCEPHALIN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 33845335816     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0606966103     Document Type: Article

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