ANCIENT URBANIZATION PREDICTS GENETIC RESISTANCE TO TUBERCULOSIS

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A link between urban living and disease is seen in recent and historical records, but the presence of this association in prehistory has been difficult to assess. If the transition to urban living does result in an increase in disease-based mortality, we might expect to see evidence of increased disease resistance in longer-term urbanized populations, as the result of natural selection. To test this, we...

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