Selección en el locus GSDMC en caballos y sus implicaciones para la movilidad humana

Xuexue Liu1,2,3, Yaozhen Jia2, Jianfei Pan1,2

  • 1Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse (CNRS/Université de Toulouse), Toulouse, France.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 28, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

La domesticación del caballo involucró la selección temprana para el comportamiento (ZFPM1) hace unos 5000 años. La selección posterior en GSDMC (hace unos 4750 años) dio forma a la conformación y movilidad del cuerpo, cruciales para las sociedades humanas.

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