Modeling recent human evolution in mice

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Cell, Volume 152, Number 4, February 14, 2013.

Modeling human evolution in mice: An adaptive variant of EDAR drives pleiotropic changes in mice and humans.

The image shows human footprints merging into mouse prints, as the mouse moves across a map of East Asia. The human variant, EDAR370A, arose approximately 30,000 years ago in Central China and spread through East Asia and Native America. Researchers generated a mouse model that mimics the evolution of this variant to further study novel targets of the EDAR370A mutation.

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Modeling Recent Human Evolution. Cover

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