Following the herd

Stephen P. Wooding

doi:10.1038/ng0107-7

Following the herd

Stephen P. Wooding

Eugene Mcdermott Center For Human Growth & Development

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Abstract

The ability to digest lactose into adulthood is a recently evolved trait that has risen to high frequency in some human populations, coincident with the introduction of cattle domestication. A new study shows that variants responsible for this trait arose independently in Europeans and Africans, providing a striking example of convergent evolution.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	7-8
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature genetics
Volume	39
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0107-7
State	Published - Jan 2007

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