Evolutionary fate of an unstable human minisatellite deduced from sperm-mutation spectra of individual alleles

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1038-1043

  Buard, Jérôme ^a   Brenner, Charles ^a,b   Jeffreys, Alec J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM;

EID: 0036204172     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339608     Document Type: Article

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