Evidence for recent positive selection at the human AIM1 locus in a European population

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 179-188

  Soejima, Mikiko ^a   Tachida, Hidenori ^b   Ishida, Takafumi ^c   Sano, Akinori ^a   Koda, Yoshiro ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

AIM1; Directional selection; Pigmentation

Indexed keywords

MELANOMA ANTIGEN 1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRYSTALLINS; DNA PRIMERS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 28944447769     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msj018     Document Type: Article

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