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Evolutionary History of the Helicobacter pylori Genome: Implications for Gastric Carcinogenesis
30 Jan 2012
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The genome of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori has evolved over the millennia since its migration out of Africa along with its human host approximately 60,000 years ago. Human migrations, after thousands of years of permanent settlement in those lands, resulted in seven prototypes of genetic populations of H. pylori with distinct geographical distributions. In all continents, present day isolates of H. pylori...
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