The action of selection on codon bias in the human genome is related to frequency, complexity, and chronology of amino acids

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kotlar, Daniel ^a   Lavner, Yizhar ^a  

^a TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; CODON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; RNA, TRANSFER; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33646229554     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-67     Document Type: Article

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