Mutation pattern variation among regions of the primate genome

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 216-226

  Casane, D ^a,b   Boissinot, S ^a   Chang, B H J ^a,c   Shimmin, L C ^a   Li, W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Université René Descartes   (France)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mutation pattern; Mutation rate; Pseudogenes; Regional effect; Sequence effect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PSEUDOGENE; SQUIRREL MONKEY;

ANIMALS; ARGININOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; BASE COMPOSITION; COLOBUS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PAPIO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COLOBUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PLATYRRHINI; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; SAIMIRI; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0030870833     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006223     Document Type: Article

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