Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1256-1260

  Perry, George H ^a,b   Dominy, Nathaniel J ^c   Claw, Katrina G ^a,d   Lee, Arthur S ^b   Fiegler, Heike ^e   Redon, Richard ^e   Werner, John ^d   Villanea, Fernando A ^c   Mountain, Joanna L ^f   Misra, Rajeev ^d   Carter, Nigel P ^e   Lee, Charles ^b,g   Stone, Anne C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; STARCH;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIGESTION; ENTEROPATHY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SALIVA ANALYSIS;

ALPHA-AMYLASE; ANIMALS; DIET; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; STARCH; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34748895999     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng2123     Document Type: Article

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