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Adaptive, convergent origins of the pygmy phenotype in African rainforest hunter-gatherers.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Sept 2014
Perry George H, Foll Matthieu, Grenier Jean-Christophe, Patin Etienne, Nédélec Yohann, Pacis Alain, Barakatt Maxime, Gravel Simon, Zhou Xiang, Nsobya Sam L, Excoffier Laurent, Quintana-Murci Lluis, Dominy Nathaniel J, Barreiro Luis B
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary history of the human pygmy phenotype (small body size), a characteristic of African and Southeast Asian rainforest hunter-gatherers, is largely unknown. Here we use a genome-wide admixture mapping analysis to identify 16 genomic regions that are significantly associated with the pygmy phenotype in the Batwa, a rainforest hunter-gatherer population from Uganda (east central Africa). The identified...
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