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Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya

2023-01-19

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The Turkana people inhabit arid regions of east Africa—where temperatures are high and water is scarce—and they practice subsistence pastoralism, such that their diet is primarily composed of animal products. Working with Turkana communities, we sequenced 367 genomes and identified 8 regions putatively involved in adaptation to water stress and pastoralism. One of these regions includes a putative enhancer for STC...

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Literature Corpus work: 649ffede-0b6b-57bd-bcc4-04fadd927748
DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.17.524066

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