Adaptations to local environments in modern human populations

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Jeong, Choongwon ^a   Di Rienzo, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTASE; GLYCOSYLCERAMIDASE;

ALLELE; ALTITUDE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; BODY HEIGHT; GENETIC TRAIT; INDIGENT; LCT GENE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 84906058508     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2014.06.011     Document Type: Review

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