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Evolutionary Perspective in Rickets and Vitamin D
Abstract
Modern lifestyle limits our exposure to sunlight, which photosynthesizes vitamin D in the skin, and the incidence of nutritional rickets has been resurging. Vitamin D is one of the oldest hormones; it is photosynthesized in all forms of life from the phytoplankton to mammals. A selective sweep of the promoter of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) happened as soon as Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa; it co-adapted with skin color genes to provide a...
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Title
Evolutionary Perspective in Rickets and Vitamin D
Published Date
May 15, 2019
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Volume
10
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