ACTN3 Allele Frequency in Humans Covaries with Global Latitudinal Gradient

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Friedlander, Scott M ^a   Herrmann, Amanda L ^a   Lowry, Daniel P ^a,b   Mepham, Emily R ^a   Lek, Monkol ^c,d   North, Kathryn N ^c,d   Organ, Chris L ^e,f  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ 3;

ALPHA ACTININ 3 GENE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; HUMAN; LATITUDE; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE;

ACTININ; CODON, TERMINATOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84872845894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052282     Document Type: Article

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