The loss of functional Caspase-12 in Europe is a pre-Neolithic event

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Hervella, Montserrat ^a   Plantinga, Theo S ^b   Alonso, Santos ^a   Ferwerda, Bart ^b,c   Izagirre, Neskuts ^a   Fontecha, Lara ^a   Fregel, Rosa ^d   van der Meer, Jos W M ^b   de la Rúa, Concepcion ^a   Netea, Mihai G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 12; DNA;

ANIMAL DOMESTICATION; ARTICLE; CLONING; DNA EXTRACTION; DOMESTICATION; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE PRODUCT; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NORTH OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA; PALEOLITHIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRE NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOOTH;

ALLELES; CASPASE 12; EUROPE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; SEPSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84861210476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037022     Document Type: Article

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