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From Environment to Genome and Back: A Lesson from HFE Mutations.
International journal of molecular sciences - 15 May 2020
Rametta Raffaela, Meroni Marica, Dongiovanni Paola
Abstract excerpt
The environment and the human genome are closely entangled and many genetic variations that occur in human populations are the result of adaptive selection to ancestral environmental (mainly dietary) conditions. However, the selected mutations may become maladaptive when environmental conditions change, thus becoming candidates for diseases. Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a potentially lethal disease leading...
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