Exploring the relationship between lifestyles, diets and genetic adaptations in humans
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- 作者：Cristina Valente ; Luis Alvarez ; Sarah J. Marks ; Ana M. Lopez-Parra…
- 关键词：Diet adaptations ; Signals of natural selection ; Africa Sub ; Saharan
- 刊名：BMC Genetics
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：16
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1,286 KB
- 刊物主题：Life Sciences, general; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Genetics and Population Dynamics;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2156
文摘
Background One of the most important dietary shifts underwent by human populations began to occur in the Neolithic, during which new modes of subsistence emerged and new nutrients were introduced in diets. This change might have worked as a selective pressure over the metabolic pathways involved in the breakdown of substances extracted from food. Here we applied a candidate gene approach to investigate whether in populations with different modes of subsistence, diet-related genetic adaptations could be identified in the genes AGXT, PLRP2, MTRR, NAT2 and CYP3A5.