Natural selection has driven population differentiation in modern humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 340-345

  Barreiro, Luis B ^a   Laval, Guillaume ^a   Quach, Hélène ^a   Patin, Etienne ^a   Quintana Murci, Lluís ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION GROUPS; SELECTION (GENETICS); UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 39749136156     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.78     Document Type: Article

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