Genetic variation among major human geographic groups supports a peculiar evolutionary trend in PAX9.

A total of 172 persons from nine South Amerindian, three African and one Eskimo populations were studied in relation to the Paired box gene 9 (PAX9) exon 3 (138 base pairs) as well as its 5'and 3'flanking intronic segments (232 bp and 220 bp, respectively) and integrated with the informati...

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Main Authors: Vanessa R Paixão-Côrtes, Diogo Meyer, Tiago V Pereira, Stéphane Mazières, Jacques Elion, Rajagopal Krishnamoorthy, Marco A Zago, Wilson A Silva, Francisco M Salzano, Maria Cátira Bortolini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21298044/pdf/?tool=EBI