Genetic variation and adaptation in Africa: implications for human evolution and disease.

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Published in Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol on July 01, 2014

Authors

Felicia Gomez1, Jibril Hirbo2, Sarah A Tishkoff2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Genetics and Biology, School of Medicine and School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 Hominid Paleobiology Doctoral Program and The Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052.
2: Department of Genetics and Biology, School of Medicine and School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.

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