Differences in the Neanderthal BRCA2 gene might be related to their distinctive cognitive profile

The unique divergence of the BRCA2 gene in Neanderthals compared to modern humans has been hypothesized to account for a differential susceptibility to cancer. However, the role of the gene in brain development and its connection with autism suggest that these differences might be (also) related to...

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Autor principal: Benítez-Burraco, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6291940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30564067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41065-018-0076-2
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description The unique divergence of the BRCA2 gene in Neanderthals compared to modern humans has been hypothesized to account for a differential susceptibility to cancer. However, the role of the gene in brain development and its connection with autism suggest that these differences might be (also) related to the more encapsulated nature of the Neanderthal cognition and their (inferred) autistic-like features.
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spelling pubmed-62919402018-12-18 Differences in the Neanderthal BRCA2 gene might be related to their distinctive cognitive profile Benítez-Burraco, Antonio Hereditas Letter to the Editor The unique divergence of the BRCA2 gene in Neanderthals compared to modern humans has been hypothesized to account for a differential susceptibility to cancer. However, the role of the gene in brain development and its connection with autism suggest that these differences might be (also) related to the more encapsulated nature of the Neanderthal cognition and their (inferred) autistic-like features. BioMed Central 2018-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6291940/ /pubmed/30564067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41065-018-0076-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Differences in the Neanderthal BRCA2 gene might be related to their distinctive cognitive profile
title Differences in the Neanderthal BRCA2 gene might be related to their distinctive cognitive profile
title_full Differences in the Neanderthal BRCA2 gene might be related to their distinctive cognitive profile
title_fullStr Differences in the Neanderthal BRCA2 gene might be related to their distinctive cognitive profile
title_full_unstemmed Differences in the Neanderthal BRCA2 gene might be related to their distinctive cognitive profile
title_short Differences in the Neanderthal BRCA2 gene might be related to their distinctive cognitive profile
title_sort differences in the neanderthal brca2 gene might be related to their distinctive cognitive profile
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6291940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30564067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41065-018-0076-2
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