Genetic diversity patterns at the human clock gene period 2 are suggestive of population-specific positive selection

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1526-1534

  Cruciani, Fulvio ^a   Trombetta, Beniamino ^a   Labuda, Damian ^b   Modiano, David ^a   Torroni, Antonio ^c   Costa, Rodolfo ^d   Scozzari, Rosaria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PER2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LATITUDE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; AMERICAS; ASIA; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OCEANIA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GROUPS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 56749112426     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2008.105     Document Type: Article

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