Quantifying ascertainment bias and species-specific length differences in human and chimpanzee microsatellites using genome sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 598-607

  Vowles, Edward J ^a   Amos, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ascertainment bias; Chimpanzee; Human; Microsatellite; Short tandem repeat

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOME; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 33244482650     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msj065     Document Type: Article

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