Comments on: Copy number variations throughout 60 million years of human and primate evolution http://anthropology.net/2007/07/30/copy-number-variations-throughout-60-million-years-of-human-and-primate-evolution/ Beyond bones & stones Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Two new studies on exploring methods to study the structure of the human genome « Anthropology.net http://anthropology.net/2007/07/30/copy-number-variations-throughout-60-million-years-of-human-and-primate-evolution/#comment-10656 Thu, 01 May 2008 22:55:05 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/07/30/copy-number-variations-throughout-60-million-years-of-human-and-primate-evolution/#comment-10656 [...] last point, most ancestry inherited markers have been SNPs, but more recent research on the human genome has shown, however, that larger-scale differences like the copy number variations (CNVs) and others [...]

]]> By: Humans Have Multiple Copies of AMY1, a Salivary Enzyme « Anthropology.net http://anthropology.net/2007/07/30/copy-number-variations-throughout-60-million-years-of-human-and-primate-evolution/#comment-3837 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:40:43 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/07/30/copy-number-variations-throughout-60-million-years-of-human-and-primate-evolution/#comment-3837 [...] amylase that digests starch. Often carrying extra copies of a sequence means there is some sort of positive selection or benefit to having multiples. Of course, extra copies of sequences can disrupt normal [...]

]]> By: Too good to pass up « blueollie http://anthropology.net/2007/07/30/copy-number-variations-throughout-60-million-years-of-human-and-primate-evolution/#comment-2129 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:37:26 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/07/30/copy-number-variations-throughout-60-million-years-of-human-and-primate-evolution/#comment-2129 [...] and Evolution What accounts for our ability to run (or walk) long distances when other primates struggle to do so? Dr. James Sikela and team used microarrays with over 24,000 [...]

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