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Human evolution: thrifty genes and the dairy queen.

Greg Gibson1.   

Abstract

Two new studies of genes that have experienced positive selection since the origin of pastoral agriculture help explain the incidence of lactose tolerance and diabetes, but cast considerable doubt on the popular thrifty genes hypothesis.

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Year:  2007        PMID: 17437710     DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.02.011

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Curr Biol        ISSN: 0960-9822            Impact factor:   10.834


  6 in total

Review 1.  Ten questions about systems biology.

Authors:  Michael J Joyner; Bente K Pedersen
Journal:  J Physiol       Date:  2011-01-04       Impact factor: 5.182

2.  Positive selection of protective variants for type 2 diabetes from the Neolithic onward: a case study in Central Asia.

Authors:  Laure Ségurel; Frederic Austerlitz; Bruno Toupance; Mathieu Gautier; Joanna L Kelley; Patrick Pasquet; Christine Lonjou; Myriam Georges; Sarah Voisin; Corinne Cruaud; Arnaud Couloux; Tatyana Hegay; Almaz Aldashev; Renaud Vitalis; Evelyne Heyer
Journal:  Eur J Hum Genet       Date:  2013-01-23       Impact factor: 4.246

Review 3.  G0S2: A small giant controller of lipolysis and adipose-liver fatty acid flux.

Authors:  Xiaodong Zhang; Bradlee L Heckmann; Latoya E Campbell; Jun Liu
Journal:  Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids       Date:  2017-06-21       Impact factor: 4.698

4.  Recent coselection in human populations revealed by protein-protein interaction network.

Authors:  Wei Qian; Hang Zhou; Kun Tang
Journal:  Genome Biol Evol       Date:  2014-12-21       Impact factor: 3.416

Review 5.  Genetics of Lactose Intolerance: An Updated Review and Online Interactive World Maps of Phenotype and Genotype Frequencies.

Authors:  Augusto Anguita-Ruiz; Concepción M Aguilera; Ángel Gil
Journal:  Nutrients       Date:  2020-09-03       Impact factor: 5.717

6.  Haplotype frequencies in a sub-region of chromosome 19q13.3, related to risk and prognosis of cancer, differ dramatically between ethnic groups.

Authors:  Mikkel H Schierup; Thomas Mailund; Heng Li; Jun Wang; Anne Tjønneland; Ulla Vogel; Lars Bolund; Bjørn A Nexø
Journal:  BMC Med Genet       Date:  2009-03-03       Impact factor: 2.103

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