Dietary adaptation of FADS genes in Europe varied across time and geography

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Ye, Kaixiong ^a   Gao, Feng ^a   Wang, David ^a   Bar Yosef, Ofer ^b   Keinan, Alon ^a,b,c  

^a Program on Infrastructure Policy   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DNA; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURE; DIET; EUROPE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; TIME FACTOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGRICULTURE; DIET; DNA, ANCIENT; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85031759069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2397334X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0167     Document Type: Article

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