Is selection responsible for the low level of variation in the last intron of the ZFY locus?

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1633-1640

  Jaruzelska, Jadwiga ^a   Ziȩtkiewicz, Ewa ^b   Labuda, Damian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Background selection; Effective population size; Human ZFX and ZFY genes; Interspecies divergence; Mutation rate of sex chromosomes; Nucleotide diversity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GROWTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 0344500827     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026076     Document Type: Article

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