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Arnold Rosenbloom
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Exploring signatures of positive selection in pigmentation candidate genes in populations of East Asian ancestry
BMC Evolutionary Biology · 2013
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Exploring signatures of positive selection in pigmentation candidate genes in populations of East Asian ancestry
Jessica Hider, Rachel M. Gittelman, Tapan Shah, Melissa Edwards, Arnold Rosenbloom, Joshua M. Akey, Esteban Juan Parra
BMC Evolutionary Biology201362 citationsOpen Access
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