Gene losses during human origins

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 0366-0377

  Wang, Xiaoxia ^a   Grus, Wendy E ^a   Zhang, Jianzhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 12; ENDOTOXIN; CASPASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE GENE; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NULL ALLELE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTECTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOGENE; SEPSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMALS; CASPASES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSEUDOGENES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33644980516     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040052     Document Type: Article

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