Investigating single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) density in the human genome and its implications for molecular evolution

Gene

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 207-213

  Zhao, Zhongming ^a   Fu, Yun Xin ^a   Hewett Emmett, David ^a   Boerwinkle, Eric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Celera; CgsSNP; Missense mutation; Natural selection; Nonsense mutation; RefSNP; Silent mutation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DENSITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONSENSE MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; INTRON; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

SPACER DNA;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 0141541805     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00670-X     Document Type: Article

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