Dichotomy of single-nucleotide polymorphism haplotypes in olfactory receptor genes and pseudogenes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 221-224

  Gilad, Yoav ^a   Segré, Daniel ^a   Skorecki, Karl ^b   Nachman, Michael W ^c   Lancet, Doron ^a   Sharon, Dror ^a,d  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DNA; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033779877     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/79957     Document Type: Article

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