The relative roles of maternal survival and inter-personal violence as selection pressures on the persistence of Neanderthal hypercoagulability alleles in modern Europeans

Background: Simonti et al. reported variation in the frequency of Neanderthal alleles found in modern humans and argued that they may have provided an evolutionary advantage. One such allele is SNP rs3917862, associated with hypercoagulability. rs3917862 can be deleterious, but can also help prevent...

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Main Authors: Ellen Ham, Simon J. Underdown, Charlotte J. Houldcroft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-02-01
Series:Annals of Human Biology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2019.1622038