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Selection in Europeans on Fatty Acid Desaturases Associated with Dietary Changes

FADS genes encode fatty acid desaturases that are important for the conversion of short chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) to long chain fatty acids. Prior studies indicate that the FADS genes have been subjected to strong positive selection in Africa, South Asia, Greenland, and Europe. By co...

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Autores principales: Buckley, Matthew T., Racimo, Fernando, Allentoft, Morten E., Jensen, Majken K., Jonsson, Anna, Huang, Hongyan, Hormozdiari, Farhad, Sikora, Martin, Marnetto, Davide, Eskin, Eleazar, Jørgensen, Marit E., Grarup, Niels, Pedersen, Oluf, Hansen, Torben, Kraft, Peter, Willerslev, Eske, Nielsen, Rasmus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5435082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28333262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx103