Neighboring-nucleotide effects on the rates of germ-line single-base- pair substitution in human genes

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 474-488

  Krawczak, Michael ^a   Ball, Edward V ^a   Cooper, David N ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CODON USAGE; DATA BASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GERM LINE; MUTATION RATE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032231701     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301965     Document Type: Article

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