Decoding Human Accelerated Regions

Katherine Pollard, now at the Gladstone Institute, has done most, over the last decade, to research and identify small non-coding regions of the humane genome that have evolved very rapidly since the split from the last common ancestor with chimpanzees. Hence they are called human accelerated regions or HARs. In this superb piece for The […]

from The Evolution and Medicine Review http://ift.tt/2acRpYL