City living helped humans evolve immunity to TB

Friday, September 24, 2010 - 06:42 in Health & Medicine

New research has found that a genetic variant which reduces the chance of contracting diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy is more prevalent in populations with long histories of urban living...

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