Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Global Spread of Beneficial Gene Variant Almost Complete

Researchers led by King's College London have found that two beneficial variants of a gene that controls the development of red blood cells have now spread to nearly all human populations across the world after originating from Africa. The international team studied the genomes of world populations to look for the origin of changes in a key regulator gene which stimulate fetal haemoglobin production into adulthood. Fetal haemoglobin is normally found in fetuses ...

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