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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

When genes and environment disagree: Making sense of trends in recent human evolution.

Alexandre Courtiol, Felix C Tropf, Melinda C Mills

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. The challenge of detecting recent natural selection in human populations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  5. GWAS on birth year infant mortality rates provides evidence of recent natural selection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  11. Sexual dimorphism in the genetic influence on human childlessness.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2017
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  13. Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alexandre CourtiolDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, D-10315 Berlin, Germany; courtiol@izw-berlin.de melinda.mills@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-0637-2959
Felix C TropfDepartment of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UQ, United Kingdom; Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1NF, United Kingdom.
Melinda C MillsDepartment of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UQ, United Kingdom; Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1NF, United Kingdom courtiol@izw-berlin.de melinda.mills@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

Funding

European Research Council 615603
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Biological EvolutionEnvironmentHumans

Identifiers

PMID27402758
PMCPMC4948334

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