Sequencing the chimpanzee genome: Insights into human evolution and disease

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 20-28

  Olson, Maynard V ^a   Varki, Ajit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 22; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GORILLA; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; HYPOTHESIS; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PANISCUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0037224073     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg981     Document Type: Review

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