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Brown University

Adaptive Variation

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Using a new machine learning approach, researchers at Brown's Center for Computational Molecular Biology found adaptive mutations in metabolic genes in a group of African hunter-gatherers. One mutation the software found is closely linked to a protein-altering mutation that is virtually absent in populations around the world, but has a frequency of 27 percent in the hunter-gatherer genome data.

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Ramachandran Lab / Brown University

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