Adaptations to new environments in humans: The role of subtle allele frequency shifts

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1552, 2010, Pages 2459-2468

  Hancock, Angela M ^a   Alkorta Aranburu, Gorka ^a   Witonsky, David B ^a   Di Rienzo, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Energy metabolism; Genome wide association studies; Pigmentation; Soft sweeps; Subsistence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIVERSITY INDEX; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; METABOLISM; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PIGMENT; POPULATION DENSITY;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CLIMATE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77952383023     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0032     Document Type: Review

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