Positive selection of a gene family during the emergence of humans and African apes

Nature

Volumn 413, Issue 6855, 2001, Pages 514-519

  Johnson, Matthew E ^a   Viggiano, Luigi ^b   Bailey, Jeffrey A ^a   Abdul Rauf, Munah ^c   Goodwin, Graham ^c   Rocchi, Mariano ^b   Eichler, Evan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b DAPEG   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GENES; PROTEINS;

GENE DUPLICATION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; PRIMATE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME MAP; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0035807336     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35097067     Document Type: Article

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