Positive selection in the human genome: From genome scans to biological significance

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages 143-160

  Kelley, Joanna L ^a   Swanson, Willie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Amylase; FOXP2; Lactase; Neanderthal; Population differentiation

Indexed keywords

FOXP2 PROTEIN; LACTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENE LOCUS; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN GENOME; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LACTASE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 52949145597     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.9.081307.164411     Document Type: Review

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