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Independent Introduction of Two Lactase-Persistence Alleles into Human Populations Reflects Different History of Adaptation to Milk Culture

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Human Genetics, January 2008
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Article details
Title
Independent Introduction of Two Lactase-Persistence Alleles into Human Populations Reflects Different History of Adaptation to Milk Culture
Published in
American Journal of Human Genetics, January 2008
DOI 10.1016/j.ajhg.2007.09.012
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 5 2%
Uruguay 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Chile 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 302 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 54 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 48 15%
Researcher 37 12%
Student > Master 28 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 21 7%
Other 64 20%
Unknown 65 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 129 41%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 35 11%
Social Sciences 27 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 6%
Arts and Humanities 6 2%
Other 25 8%
Unknown 75 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 September 2026.
All research outputs
#998,999
of 34,539,236 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Human Genetics
#459
of 7,837 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,608
of 227,246 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Human Genetics
#6
of 50 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,539,236 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,837 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 227,246 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 50 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.