Mechanisms of Dietary Response in Mice and Primates: A Role for EGR1 in Regulating the Reaction to Human-Specific Nutritional Content

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2012-08-24

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Weng, Kai
Hu, Haiyang
Xu, Augix Guohua
Khaitovich, Philipp
Somel, Mehmet

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Background: Humans have a widely different diet from other primate species, and are dependent on its high nutritional content. The molecular mechanisms responsible for adaptation to the human diet are currently unknown. Here, we addressed this question by investigating whether the gene expression response observed in mice fed human and chimpanzee diets involves the same regulatory mechanisms as expression differences between humans and chimpanzees.

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Gene-expression, Positive selection, Human genome, Evolution, Cells, Mouse, Activation, Inhibition, Growth, Transformation

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34817

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PLOS ONE

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043915

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K. Weng, H. Hu, A. G. Xu, P. Khaitovich, and M. Somel, “Mechanisms of Dietary Response in Mice and Primates: A Role for EGR1 in Regulating the Reaction to Human-Specific Nutritional Content,” PLOS ONE, pp. 0–0, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34817.