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Natural selection contributed to immunological differences between human hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists

2018-12-04

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The shift from a hunter-gatherer (HG) to an agricultural (AG) mode of subsistence is believed to have been associated with profound changes in the burden and diversity of pathogens across human populations. Yet, the extent to which the advent of agriculture may have impacted the evolution of the human immune system remains unknown. Here we present a comparative study of variation in the transcriptional responses o...

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Literature Corpus work: 89cfa446-22ad-5b76-938e-13b84c005e36
DOI: 10.1101/487207

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