Malaria and rickets represent selective forces for the convergent evolution of adult lactase persistence

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Lactase 99%
• Rickets 91%
• Dairying 75%
• Malaria 63%
• Lactase-Phlorizin Hydrolase 62%
• Milk 43%
• Alleles 25%
• Octamer Transcription Factor-1 19%
• Gene Pool 17%
• Gene Flow 17%
• Genetic Selection 15%
• Genes 14%
• Lactose 13%
• Galactose 12%
• Weaning 12%
• Drinking 10%
• Single Nucleotide Polymorphism 9%
• Population 9%
• Genome 7%
• Glucose 7%
• Mutation 6%
• Enzymes 6%
• Incidence 5%
• In Vitro Techniques 5%

Agriculture & Biology

• rickets 100%
• convergent evolution 86%
• beta-galactosidase 71%
• malaria 71%
• glycosylceramidase 45%
• milk production 30%
• milk 23%
• alleles 18%
• coevolution 9%
• drinking 9%
• gene pool 9%
• genes 9%
• natural selection 8%
• single nucleotide polymorphism 8%
• lactose 8%
• galactose 8%
• gene flow 7%
• weaning 7%
• digestive system 7%
• transcription factors 6%
• incidence 6%
• mutation 5%
• glucose 5%
• genome 4%
• enzymes 3%