African signatures of recent positive selection in human FOXI1

BACKGROUND: The human FOXI1 gene codes for a transcription factor involved in the physiology of the inner ear, testis, and kidney. Using three interspecies comparisons, it has been suggested that this may be a gene under human-specific selection. We sought to confirm this finding by using an extende...

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Autores principales: Moreno-Estrada, Andrés, Aparicio-Prat, Estel, Sikora, Martin, Engelken, Johannes, Ramírez-Soriano, Anna, Calafell, Francesc, Bosch, Elena
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20809947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-267

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20809947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-267

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