A role for selection in regulating the evolutionary emergence of disease-causing and other coding CAG repeats in humans and mice

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1014-1023

  Hancock, J M ^a   Worthey, E A ^a   Santibanez Koref M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAG repeats; Natural selection; Simple sequences; Triplets expansion diseases

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

MURINAE;

EID: 0034984834     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003873     Document Type: Article

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