A human derived SSADH coding variant is replacing the ancestral allele shared with primates

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 593-603

  Leone, Ofelia ^a   Blasi, Paola ^b   Palmerio, Francesca ^b   Kozlov, Andrey I ^c   Malaspina, Patrizia ^b   Novelletto, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c ArctAn C Innovative Laboratory   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Darwinian selection; Human population; SSADH

Indexed keywords

ALDH5A1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SUCCINATE SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; COEVOLUTION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIMATE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIMATE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMATES; SUCCINATE-SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE;

AFRICA;

PRIMATES;

EID: 33847699388     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014460601035748     Document Type: Article

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