Birth of 'human-specific' genes during primate evolution

Genetica

Volumn 118, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 193-208

  Nahon, Jean Louis ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Anthropoids; Molecular evolution; Primates; Retroposition; Segmental duplications

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; RETROELEMENTS;

ANTHROPOIDEA; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 0012644151     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024157714736     Document Type: Review

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