Publication Date:
2007-04-21
Description:
Mekel-Bobrov et al. (Reports, 9 September 2005, p. 1720) suggested that ASPM, a gene associated with microcephaly, underwent natural selection within the last 500 to 14,100 years. Their analyses based on comparison with computer simulations indicated that ASPM had an unusual pattern of variation. However, when we compare ASPM empirically to a large number of other loci, its variation is not unusual and does not support selection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yu, Fuli -- Hill, R Sean -- Schaffner, Stephen F -- Sabeti, Pardis C -- Wang, Eric T -- Mignault, Andre A -- Ferland, Russell J -- Moyzis, Robert K -- Walsh, Christopher A -- Reich, David -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Apr 20;316(5823):370.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17446375" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adaptation, Biological
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African Continental Ancestry Group/genetics
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Asian Continental Ancestry Group/genetics
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Biological Evolution
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Brain/anatomy & histology
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European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics
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Gene Frequency
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Haplotypes
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Humans
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Nerve Tissue Proteins/*genetics
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*Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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Recombination, Genetic
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*Selection, Genetic
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Time
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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