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Microcephaly genes and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in primate brain size.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Apr 2013

Montgomery S H, Mundy N I

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Microcephaly genes are amongst the most intensively studied genes with candidate roles in brain evolution. Early controversies surrounded the suggestion that they experienced differential selection pressures in different human populations, but several association studies failed to find any link between variation in microcephaly genes and brain size in humans. Recently, however, sex-dependent associations were...

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PMID: 23305468
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12091

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