Selection on human genes as revealed by comparisons to chimpanzee cDNA

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 831-837

  Hellmann, Ines ^a   Zöllner, Sebastian ^b   Enard, Wolfgang ^a   Ebersberger, Ingo ^a   Nickel, Birgit ^a   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DINUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILENT GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENES; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0038104863     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.944903     Document Type: Article

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