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Human evolution: the non-coding revolution

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Title
Human evolution: the non-coding revolution
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BMC Biology, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12915-017-0428-9
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Lucía F. Franchini, Katherine S. Pollard

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 challenge in the past decade has been to link diverged sequences to uniquely human biology. This review discusses approaches to this problem, progress made at the molecular level, and prospects for moving towards genetic causes for uniquely human biology.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 186 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 20%
Researcher 25 13%
Student > Master 24 13%
Student > Bachelor 24 13%
Other 10 5%
Other 29 16%
Unknown 37 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 69 37%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 37 20%
Neuroscience 14 8%
Engineering 5 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 3%
Other 13 7%
Unknown 43 23%