Patterns of ancestry, signatures of natural selection, and genetic association with stature in Western African pygmies.

Patterns of ancestry, signatures of natural selection, and genetic association with stature in Western African pygmies.

African Pygmy groups show a distinctive pattern of phenotypic variation, including short stature, which is thought to reflect past adaptation to a tropical environment. Here, we analyze Illumina 1M SNP array data in three Western Pygmy populations from Cameroon and three neighboring Bantu-speaking a...

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Main Authors: Joseph P Jarvis, Laura B Scheinfeldt, Sameer Soi, Charla Lambert, Larsson Omberg, Bart Ferwerda, Alain Froment, Jean-Marie Bodo, William Beggs, Gabriel Hoffman, Jason Mezey, Sarah A Tishkoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3343053?pdf=render

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