Clinical consequences of human evolution shaped by cultural trends
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Clinical consequences of human evolution shaped by cultural trends
Recent reports suggest that increased human population size, decreased negative selection pertaining to some phenotypes and associated genotypes and a possibly increased de novo mutation burden for newborns that relates to paternal age at conception are contributing to an expansion of human genetic diversity. Some of this diversity can be expected to contribute to disease. Because all of the pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2050-6201
DOI: 10.1093/emph/eos006