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Genomic signatures of increasing disease burden in recent prehistory

2025-07-24

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One of the strongest selection pressures experienced by human populations is that driven by diseases on immune-related genomic regions. While it has been hypothesized for some time that disease burdens increased with the shift to agricultural and urbanized lifestyles, direct evidence for this hypothesis is lacking. Here, we capitalize on the accumulation of ancient genomic data to study changes in disease burden i...

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Literature Corpus work: 30df8d9e-7638-5ce4-b301-916577f34479
DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.22.666087

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