Human evolution: the non-coding revolution

Abstract What made us human? Gene expression changes clearly played a significant part in human evolution, but pinpointing the causal regulatory mutations is hard. Comparative genomics enabled the identification of human accelerated regions (HARs) and other human-specific genome sequences. The major...

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Main Authors: Lucía F. Franchini, Katherine S. Pollard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-017-0428-9