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Nature Genetics 39, 7 - 8 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ng0107-7
Following the herd
Stephen P Wooding1
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Stephen P. Wooding is at the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6000 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA.
e-mail: stephen.wooding@utsouthwestern.edu
Abstract
The ability to digest lactose into adulthood is a recently evolved trait that has risen to high frequency in some human populations, coincident with the introduction of cattle domestication. A new study shows that variants responsible for this trait arose independently in Europeans and Africans, providing a striking example of convergent evolution.
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