Lineage-Specific Selection in Human mtDNA: Lack of Polymorphisms in a Segment of MTND5 Gene in Haplogroup J

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2132-2142

  Moilanen, Jukka S ^a   Finnilä, Saara ^a   Majamaa, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Human mitochondrial DNA; Phylogenetics; Rates of evolution; Selective constraints; Structural functional domains

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; MTND5 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0347986768     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg230     Document Type: Article

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