Evolutionary constraints in conserved nongenic sequences of mammals

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1373-1378

  Keightley, Peter D ^a   Kryukov, Gregory V ^b   Sunyaev, Shamil ^b   Halligan, Daniel L ^b   Gaffney, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMINID; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; MAMMALS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE;

EID: 25844469247     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3942005     Document Type: Article

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