Fire Usage and Ancient Hominin Detoxification Genes: Protective Ancestral Variants Dominate While Additional Derived Risk Variants Appear in Modern Humans

• Jac M. M. J. G. Aarts ,

  * E-mail: jac.aarts@wur.nl

  Affiliations Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7634-8578

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• Gerrit M. Alink,

  Affiliations Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Division of Toxicology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Fulco Scherjon,

  Affiliation Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Katharine MacDonald,

  Affiliation Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Alison C. Smith,

  Affiliation Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Harm Nijveen,

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Wil Roebroeks

  Affiliation Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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