Dynamics of a human interparalog gene conversion hotspot

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 835-844

  Bosch, Elena ^a,c   Hurles, Matthew E ^b,d   Navarro, Arcadi ^c   Jobling, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME YQ; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS;

EID: 2442690342     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2177404     Document Type: Article

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