A tale of two haplotypes: The EDA2R/AR intergenic region is the most divergent genomic segment between Africans and East Asians in the human genome

Human Biology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 641-694

  Casto, Amanda M ^a   Henn, Brenna M ^a   Kidd, Jeffery M ^b   Bustamante, Carlos D ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

EDA2R AR intergenic region evolution; Haplotype; Human; Selection; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AR PROTEIN, HUMAN; EDA2R PROTEIN, HUMAN; SPACER DNA; XEDAR RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA, INTERGENIC; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; XEDAR RECEPTOR;

EID: 84995268968     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.084.0604     Document Type: Article

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