Monday, August 23, 2010
“Vitamin D status is potentially one of the most powerful selective pressures on the genome in relatively recent times,” says Professor George Ebers of the University of Oxford and one of the senior authors of the paper. “Our study appears to support this interpretation and it may be we have not had enough time to make all the adaptations we have needed to cope with our northern circumstances.”
Seldom does basic science like this make the headlines. But this research certainly warrants that. If vitamin D is snake oil, I’ll drink it.
