Worldwide genetic and cultural change in human evolution

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 41, Issue , 2016, Pages 85-92

  Creanza, Nicole ^a,b   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; ASTHMA; CELIAC DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HOMOPHILY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LANGUAGE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HISTORY; HOMINID; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84987875352     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2016.08.006     Document Type: Review

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