A low rate of simultaneous double-nucleotide mutations in primates

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-53

  Smith, Nick G C ^a   Webster, Matthew T ^a   Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Doublet mutations; Regional variation; Sequence context effects; Synonymous nonsynonymous correlation; Tandem substitutions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; NUCLEOTIDES; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037227261     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg003     Document Type: Article

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