A scan for positively selected genes in the genomes of humans and chimpanzees

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 0976-0985

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a,b   Bustamante, Carlos ^a   Clark, Andrew G ^c   Glanowski, Stephen ^d   Sackton, Timothy B ^c   Hubisz, Melissa J ^a   Fledel Alon, Adi ^a   Tanenbaum, David M ^e   Civello, Daniel ^f   White, Thomas J ^f   Sninsky, John J ^f   Adams, Mark D ^e,g   Cargill, Michele ^f  

^a Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d Applied Biosystems   (United States)

^e CELERA GENOMICS   (United States)

^f CELERA   (United States)

^g CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CODON; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES;

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 20444430245     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030170     Document Type: Article

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