The role of geography in human adaptation.

Various observations argue for a role of adaptation in recent human evolution, including results from genome-wide studies and analyses of selection signals at candidate genes. Here, we use genome-wide SNP data from the HapMap and CEPH-Human Genome Diversity Panel samples to study the geographic dist...

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Main Authors: Graham Coop, Joseph K Pickrell, John Novembre, Sridhar Kudaravalli, Jun Li, Devin Absher, Richard M Myers, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marcus W Feldman, Jonathan K Pritchard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2685456?pdf=render