Adaptively introgressed Neandertal haplotype at the OAS locus functionally impacts innate immune responses in humans

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Summary

It is suggested that the Neandertal-introgressed haplotype likely reintroduced an ancestral splice variant of OAS1 encoding a more active protein, suggesting that adaptive introgression occurred as a means to resurrect adaptive variation that had been lost outside Africa.

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Published
2016-09-12
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Keywords

Introgression, Biology, Haplotype, Locus (genetics), Genetics

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