The prion protein gene in humans revisited: Lessons from a worldwide resequencing study

Genome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 231-239

  Soldevila, Marta ^a   Andrés, Aida M ^a,b   Ramírez Soriano, Anna ^a   Marquès Bonet, Tomàs ^a   Calafell, Francesc ^a   Navarro, Arcadi ^a   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PRION PROTEIN;

AFRICA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APE; ARTICLE; ASIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; EXON; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MIDDLE EAST; NATURAL SELECTION; NORTH AFRICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRION DISEASE; PRION PROTEIN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYLOID; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRIONS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 32044451964     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4345506     Document Type: Article

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