Spread of an inactive form of caspase-12 in humans is due to recent positive selection

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 659-670

  Xue, Yali ^a   Daly, Allan ^a   Yngvadottir, Bryndis ^a   Liu, Mengning ^a   Coop, Graham ^b   Kim, Yuseob ^c   Sabeti, Pardis ^d   Chen, Yuan ^a   Stalker, Jim ^a   Huckle, Elizabeth ^a   Burton, John ^a   Leonard, Steven ^a   Rogers, Jane ^a   Tyler Smith, Chris ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 12; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON;

EID: 33645462359     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503116     Document Type: Article

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