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Evolution of cytokine production capacity in ancient and modern European populations
2021-01-17
Abstract excerpt
As our ancestors migrated throughout the different continents, natural selection increased the presence of alleles advantageous in the new environments. Heritable variations that alter the susceptibility to diseases vary with the historical period, the virulence of the infections, and their geographical spread. In this study we built polygenic scores for heritable traits influencing the genetic adaptation in the p...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6ab0208a-6857-528c-949b-8ed7cf365eaa
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.01.14.426690