Evolutionary perspectives on health and medicine

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 1691-1695

  Stearns, Stephen C ^a   Nesse, Randolph M ^b   Govindaraju, Diddahally R ^c   Ellison, Peter T ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AUTISM; BRAIN GROWTH; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LINEAGE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTION; FETUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICINE; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MUTATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; EVOLUTION; HEALTH; HUMANS; MEDICINE; MUTATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 76649114394     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914475107     Document Type: Editorial

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