Emergence of young human genes after a burst of retroposition in primates

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1970-1979

  Marques, Ana Claudia ^a   Dupanloup, Isabelle ^a   Vinckenbosch, Nicolas ^a   Reymond, Alexandre ^a,b   Kaessmann, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE; RETROPOSON; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

PRIMATES;

PEPTIDE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATES; RETROELEMENTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX FACTORS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 27844557002     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030357     Document Type: Article

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