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Genes Regulated by Vitamin D in Bone Cells Are Positively Selected in East Asians

Vitamin D and folate are activated and degraded by sunlight, respectively, and the physiological processes they control are likely to have been targets of selection as humans expanded from Africa into Eurasia. We investigated signals of positive selection in gene sets involved in the metabolism, reg...

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Autores principales: Arciero, Elena, Biagini, Simone Andrea, Chen, Yuan, Xue, Yali, Luiselli, Donata, Tyler-Smith, Chris, Pagani, Luca, Ayub, Qasim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4697808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26719974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146072