Variations in substitution rate in human and mouse genomes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Von Grunberg H H ^a   Peifer, M ^b   Timmer, J ^b   Kollmann, M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MUTAGENESIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VECTORS;

EUKARYOTES; GENOMES CARRY FUNCTION; MUTATIONS; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

GENES;

EID: 19744363556     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.208102     Document Type: Article

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