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Does this paper in any way capture similar findings reported by the Lahn Group in Cell in Dec. 2004

Posted by PLoS_Cai on 15 Jun 2007 at 19:32 GMT

I did not look into the gene families in great detail. So many datasets.

Anyone in the Neuroscience field might be interested in this question.

Accelerated evolution of nervous system genes in the origin of Homo sapiens.
Dorus S, Vallender EJ, Evans PD, Anderson JR, Gilbert SL, Mahowald M, Wyckoff GJ, Malcom CM, Lahn BT.

Cell. 2004 Dec 29;119(7):1027-40.