Adaptations to climate-mediated selective pressures in humans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hancock, Angela M ^a   Witonsky, David B ^a   Alkorta Aranburu, Gorka ^a   Beall, Cynthia M ^b   Gebremedhin, Amha ^c   Sukernik, Rem ^d   Utermann, Gerd ^e   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^a,f   Coop, Graham ^a,g   Di Rienzo, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; NEOPLASM; PIGMENTATION; PRECIPITATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ACCLIMATIZATION; GENETIC SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CLIMATE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 79955572378     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001375     Document Type: Article

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