The ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM and Microcephalin is not explained by increased intelligence

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 600-608

  Mekel Bobrov, Nitzan ^a   Posthuma, Danielle ^b   Gilbert, Sandra L ^a   Lind, Penelope ^c   Gosso, M Florencia ^b   Luciano, Michelle ^c   Harris, Sarah E ^d   Bates, Timothy C ^d   Polderman, Tinca J C ^b,f   Whalley, Lawrence J ^e   Fox, Helen ^e   Starr, John M ^d   Evans, Patrick D ^a   Montgomery, Grant W ^c   Fernandes, Croydon ^a   Heutink, Peter ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^c   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b   Deary, Ian J ^d   Wright, Margaret J ^c   de Geus, Eco J C ^b   Lahn, Bruce T ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL SPINDLE LIKE MICROCEPHALY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MICROCEPHALIN 1; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; BRAIN; CHILD; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SIZE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 34247123696     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl487     Document Type: Article

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