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Evolution Of Lactase Persistence

Evolution of Lactase Persistence is a genetic evolutionary phenomenon in which the continued expression of lactase into adulthood, enabling the digestion of lactose in milk, emerged independently in various human populations as an adaptive response to the cultural practice of dairy consumption.

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Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe

Sarah A. Tishkoff, Floyd A. Reed, Alessia Ranciaro et al. · Nature Genetics · 2006 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe

Yuval Itan, Adam Powell, Mark Beaumont et al. · PLoS Computational Biology · 2009 · 583 citations · Full text

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Lactose digestion and the evolutionary genetics of lactase persistence

C Ingram, Charlotte A. Mulcare, Yuval Itan et al. · Human Genetics · 2008 · 503 citations

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Evolution of lactase persistence: an example of human niche construction

Pascale Gerbault, Anke Liebert, Yuval Itan et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2011 · 502 citations

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Absence of the lactase-persistence-associated allele in early Neolithic Europeans

Joachim Bürger, Marion Kirchner, Barbara Bramanti et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 456 citations · Full text

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    Dallas M. Swallow

    University College London, United Kingdom

    13 publications · 2.3K citations

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  2. MT
    Mark Thomas

    University College London, United Kingdom

    12 publications · 3.3K citations

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    Anke Liebert

    University College London, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 1.1K citations

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    Bryony Jones

    University College London, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 626 citations

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  5. YI
    Yuval Itan

    Rockefeller University, United States

    5 publications · 2K citations

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  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    17 h-index

    82 publications

    17.3K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    29 publications

    2.5K citations

  3. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    9 h-index

    19 publications

    2.1K citations

  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    22 publications

    1.7K citations

  5. University of Geneva

    Geneva, Switzerland

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    1.7K citations

  6. Université Paris Cité

    Paris, France

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    864 citations

  7. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

    Mainz, Germany

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    3.4K citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    5 h-index

    14 publications

    1.4K citations

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  1. Human Genetics

    5 publications · 1K citations

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  2. Human Biology

    4 publications · 93 citations

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  3. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

    4 publications · 123 citations

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  4. The American Journal of Human Genetics

    AJHG · 4 publications · 840 citations

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 4 publications · 715 citations

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