Episodic evolution of pyrin in primates: Human mutations recapitulate ancestral amino acid states

Nature Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 318-321

  Schaner, Philip ^a   Richards, Neil ^b   Wadhwa, Anish ^b   Aksentijevich, Ivona ^c   Kastner, Daniel ^c   Tucker, Priscilla ^a   Gumucio, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PYRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEVER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; INFLAMMATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0035091156     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/85893     Document Type: Article

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