Ancestry runs deeper than blood: The evolutionary history of ABO points to cryptic variation of functional importance

BioEssays

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 862-867

  Ségurel, Laure ^a   Gao, Ziyue ^a   Przeworski, Molly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

ABO; Balancing selection; Evolution; Host pathogen interaction; Population genetics; Primates

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; STOMACH CANCER;

PRIMATES;

ABO; BALANCING SELECTION; EVOLUTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIMATES;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIMATES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884710801     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300030     Document Type: Article

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