A population threshold for functional polymorphisms

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1873-1879

  Wong, Gane Ka Shu ^a,b,c   Yang, Zhiyong ^d   Passey, Douglas A ^a   Kibukawa, Miho ^a   Paddock, Marcia ^a   Liu, Chun Rong ^a   Bolund, Lars ^a,c,e   Yu, Jun ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PURITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0042525769     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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