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Gene-culture coevolution between cattle milk protein genes and human lactase genes.
Nature genetics - 1 Dec 2003
Beja-Pereira Albano, Luikart Gordon, England Phillip R, Bradley Daniel G, Jann Oliver C, Bertorelle Giorgio, Chamberlain Andrew T, Nunes Telmo P, Metodiev Stoitcho, Ferrand Nuno, Erhardt Georg
Abstract excerpt
Milk from domestic cows has been a valuable food source for over 8,000 years, especially in lactose-tolerant human societies that exploit dairy breeds. We studied geographic patterns of variation in genes encoding the six most important milk proteins in 70 native European cattle breeds. We found substantial geographic coincidence between high diversity in cattle milk genes, locations of the European Neolithic...
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