Human type I hair keratin pseudogene φhHaA has functional orthologs in the chimpanzee and gorilla: Evidence for recent inactivation of the human gene after the Pan-Homo divergence

Human Genetics

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-42

  Winter, Hermelita ^a   Langbein, Lutz ^a   Krawczak, Michael ^b   Cooper, David N ^b   Jave Suarez, Luis F ^a   Rogers, Michael A ^a   Praetzel, Silke ^a   Heidt, Peter J ^c   Schweizer, Jürgen ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; KERATIN; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INACTIVATION; GENOTYPE; GORILLA; HAIR FOLLICLE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; KERATINS; KERATINS, HAIR-SPECIFIC; KERATINS, TYPE I; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSEUDOGENES;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0035122674     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390000439     Document Type: Article

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