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Genomic trade-offs: are autism and schizophrenia the steep price of the human brain?

Evolution often deals in genomic trade-offs: changes in the genome that are beneficial overall persist even though they also produce disease in a subset of individuals. Here, we explore the possibility that such trade-offs have occurred as part of the evolution of the human brain. Specifically, we p...

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Autores principales: Sikela, J. M., Searles Quick, V. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5898792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29335774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00439-017-1865-9

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