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Posted by Daniel MacArthur on June 3, 2009 Razib from Gene Expression has a frankly heroic post up dissecting a recent paper on genetic variation around the FUT2 gene, which encodes a cell surface protein involved in the pathway that produces the ABO blood group antigens. The story illustrates some of the difficulties associated with extracting information about human evolution from genetic sequence…