Diversity in the Glucose Transporter-4 Gene (SLC2A4) in Humans Reflects the Action of Natural Selection along the Old-World Primates Evolution

Eduardo Tarazona-Santos; Cristina Fabbri; Meredith Yeager; Wagner C. Magalhaes; Laurie Burdett; Andrew Crenshaw; Davide Pettener; Stephen J. Chanock

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009827

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Diversity in the Glucose Transporter-4 Gene (SLC2A4) in Humans Reflects the Action of Natural Selection along the Old-World Primates Evolution

Eduardo Tarazona-Santos ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Tarazona-Santos, Cristina Fabbri

* E-mail: edutars@icb.ufmg.br

Affiliations Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Cristina Fabbri ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Tarazona-Santos, Cristina Fabbri

Affiliations Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Meredith Yeager,

Affiliations Intramural Research Support Program, SAIC Frederick, National Cancer Institute - Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center (NCI-FCRDC), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Core Genotype Facility, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
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Wagner C. Magalhaes,

Affiliations Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Laurie Burdett,

Affiliations Intramural Research Support Program, SAIC Frederick, National Cancer Institute - Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center (NCI-FCRDC), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Core Genotype Facility, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
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Andrew Crenshaw,

Affiliations Intramural Research Support Program, SAIC Frederick, National Cancer Institute - Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center (NCI-FCRDC), Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Core Genotype Facility, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
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Davide Pettener,

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Stephen J. Chanock

Affiliation Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Diversity in the Glucose Transporter-4 Gene (SLC2A4) in Humans Reflects the Action of Natural Selection along the Old-World Primates Evolution

Eduardo Tarazona-Santos,
Cristina Fabbri,
Meredith Yeager,
Wagner C. Magalhaes,
Laurie Burdett,
Andrew Crenshaw,
Davide Pettener,
Stephen J. Chanock

Published: March 23, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009827

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