Age distribution of human gene families shows significant roles of both large- and small-scale duplications in vertebrate evolution

Nature Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 205-209

  Gu, Xun ^a,b   Wang, Yufeng ^a,b   Gu, Jianying ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Zoology and Genetics ^*  (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; VERTEBRATES;

PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036613509     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng902     Document Type: Article

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