Development of an unbiased statistical method for the analysis of unigenic evolution

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Behrsin, Colleen D ^a   Brandl, Chris J ^a   Litchfield, David W ^a   Shilton, Brian H ^a   Wahl, Lindi M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHI-SQUARE ANALYSIS; CONSERVED RESIDUES; GENE PRODUCTS; IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS; MUTATION FREQUENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTIONS; RANDOM MUTAGENESIS; REGION BOUNDARIES;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

PROTEINS;

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CODON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33645772003     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-150     Document Type: Article

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