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Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation

Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation

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Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation

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Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation

Publisher

United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Journal title

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2015-09, Vol.349 (6254), p.1343-1347

Language

English

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United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Contents

The indigenous people of Greenland, the Inuit, have lived for a long time in the extreme conditions of the Arctic, including low annual temperatures, and with a specialized diet rich in protein and fatty acids, particularly omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). A scan of Inuit genomes for signatures of adaptation revealed signals at several...

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Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1904236855

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1904236855

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ISSN

0036-8075

E-ISSN

1095-9203

DOI

10.1126/science.aab2319

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