Why do human diversity levels vary at a megabase scale?

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1222-1231

  Hellmann, Ines ^a   Prüfer, Kay ^a   Ji, Hongkai ^b   Zody, Michael C ^c   Pääbo, Svante ^a   Ptak, Susan E ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHIMPANZEE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN GENOME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 24344455529     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3461105     Document Type: Article

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