Malignancies and high birth weight in human: which cancers could result from antagonistic pleiotropy?

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  • who: Fréderic Thomas and collaborators from the UMR CNRS-IRD, Agropolis, BP, Montpellier , France Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montreal, Sherbrooke Street E, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H X , have published the paper: Malignancies and High Birth Weight in Human: Which Cancers Could Result from Antagonistic Pleiotropy?, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The authors focused birth weight since this life history trait has genetic basis and also associated with fitness benefits early in life especially survival. Assuming that cancers in humans might result from negative trade-offs of adaptations that improve early survival (as . . .

     

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