World-wide distributions of lactase persistence alleles and the complex effects of recombination and selection

In VitroFunctional Analyses of Infrequent Nucleotide Variants in the Lactase Enhancer Reveal Different Molecular Routes to Increased Lactase Promoter Activity and Lactase Persistence

(2016) Anke Liebert et al.   ANNALS OF HUMAN GENETICS

R2d2Drives Selfish Sweeps in the House Mouse

(2016) John P. Didion et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Diversity of lactase persistence in African milk drinkers

(2015) Bryony Leigh Jones et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

(2015) Iain Mathieson et al.   NATURE

Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

(2015) Wolfgang Haak et al.   NATURE

Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

(2015) Morten E. Allentoft et al.   NATURE

Genetic Origins of Lactase Persistence and the Spread of Pastoralism in Africa

(2014) Alessia Ranciaro et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

selscan: An Efficient Multithreaded Program to Perform EHH-Based Scans for Positive Selection

(2014) Z. A. Szpiech et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Direct Estimates of Natural Selection in Iberia Indicate Calcium Absorption Was Not the Only Driver of Lactase Persistence in Europe

(2014) Oddný Ósk Sverrisdóttir et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Transmission Distortion Affecting Human Noncrossover but Not Crossover Recombination: A Hidden Source of Meiotic Drive

(2014) Linda Odenthal-Hesse et al.   PLoS Genetics

Diversity of Lactase Persistence Alleles in Ethiopia: Signature of a Soft Selective Sweep

(2013) Bryony L. Jones et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Stronger signal of recent selection for lactase persistence in Maasai than in Europeans

(2012) Carina M Schlebusch et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Low prevalence of lactase persistence in Neolithic South-West Europe

(2012) Theo S Plantinga et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

ZRANB3 is a structure-specific ATP-dependent endonuclease involved in replication stress response

(2012) R. Weston et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

The human lactase persistence-associated SNP −13910*T enables in vivo functional persistence of lactase promoter–reporter transgene expression

(2012) Lin Fang et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

The −14010*C variant associated with lactase persistence is located between an Oct-1 and HNF1α binding site and increases lactase promoter activity

(2011) Tine G. K. Jensen et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

Herders of Indian and European Cattle Share Their Predominant Allele for Lactase Persistence

(2011) Irene Gallego Romero et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of lactase persistence: an example of human niche construction

(2011) P. Gerbault et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individuals

(2010) Augustine Kong et al.   NATURE

Drive Against Hotspot Motifs in Primates Implicates the PRDM9 Gene in Meiotic Recombination

(2010) S. Myers et al.   SCIENCE

Multiple Rare Variants as a Cause of a Common Phenotype: Several Different Lactase Persistence Associated Alleles in a Single Ethnic Group

(2009) Catherine J. E. Ingram et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Impact of Selection and Demography on the Diffusion of Lactase Persistence

(2009) Pascale Gerbault et al.   PLoS One

The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe

(2009) Yuval Itan et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Independent Introduction of Two Lactase-Persistence Alleles into Human Populations Reflects Different History of Adaptation to Milk Culture

(2008) Nabil Sabri Enattah et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS