Antagonistic pleiotropy may help make babies

In direct contrast to the previous post, which preaches caution when attributing antagonistic pleiotropy to cases where palpably deleterious genes or gene variants persist despite their obvious dysgenic effects, this paper, in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B, by Grazyna Jasienska et al, uncovers a very plausible solution to why the deleterious APOE epsilon 4 gene […]

from The Evolution and Medicine Review http://ift.tt/2dXT1Eo