Adaptive, convergent origins of the pygmy phenotype in African rainforest hunter-gatherers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 35, 2014, Pages

  Perry, George H ^a   Foll, Matthieu ^b,c   Grenier, Jean Christophe ^d   Patin, Etienne ^e,f   Nédélec, Yohann ^d,g   Pacis, Alain ^d,g   Barakatt, Maxime ^h   Gravel, Simon ^h   Zhou, Xiang ⁱ   Nsobya, Sam L ^j   Excoffier, Laurent ^c,k   Quintana Murci, Lluis ^e,f   Dominy, Nathaniel J ^l   Barreiro, Luis B ^d,g  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^j MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^l DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Human evolutionary ecology; Human hunter gatherers; Population genomics

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYGMY; RAIN FOREST; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY; HUMAN HUNTER-GATHERERS; POPULATION GENOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; UGANDA;

EID: 84907228318     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402875111     Document Type: Article

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