On the Evolution of Lactase Persistence in Humans

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue , 2017, Pages 297-319

  Ségurel, Laure ^a   Bon, Céline ^a  

^a Université Diderot Paris 7   (France)

Author keywords

Human evolution; Lactase; Milk; Natural selection; Neolithic; Pastoralism

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DNA; LACTASE; LACTOSE;

AFRICAN; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CENTRAL ASIAN; FOOD PROCESSING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LACTASE DEFICIENCY; LACTASE PERSISTENCE; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MILK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INTESTINES; LACTASE; LACTOSE; MILK; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85028751623     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: 1545293X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-091416-035340     Document Type: Article

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