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Systematic detection of brain protein-coding genes under positive selection during primate evolution and their roles in cognition

2019-06-03

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The human brain differs from that of other primates, but the genetic basis of these differences remains unclear. We investigated the evolutionary pressures acting on almost all human protein-coding genes ( N =11,667; 1:1 orthologs in primates) based on their divergence from those of early hominins, such as Neanderthals, and non-human primates. We confirm that genes encoding brain-related proteins are among the mo...

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Literature Corpus work: e77d4e64-a25f-54d2-9574-2e502f3118a1
DOI: 10.1101/658658

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