Evolutionary dynamics of large Numts in the human genome: Rarity of independent insertions and abundance of post-insertion duplications

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-174

  Hazkani Covo, Einat ^a   Sorek, Rotem ^a,b   Graur, Dan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Compugen Ltd ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Gene duplicaton; Human genome; Numts; Primates; Promiscuous DNA; Pseudogenes

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUMTS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES;

CATARRHINI; CERCOPITHECIDAE; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037309706     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-002-2390-5     Document Type: Article

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