Copy numbers of
AMY1 vary between societies with hig
h-starch and lo
w-starch diets.
Data from G. H. Perry, N. J. Dominy, K. G. Claw, A. S. Lee, H. Fiegler, R. Redon, J. Werner, F. A. Villanea, J. L. Mountain, R. Misra, N. P. Carter, C. Lee, and A. C. Stone, 2007, “Diet and the Evolution of Human Amylase Copy Number Variation,” Nature Genetics 39:1256–1260.