Evolutionary divergence of exon flanks: A dissection of mutability and selection

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1787-1791

  Xing, Yi ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Lee, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC;

PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 33746444387     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.057919     Document Type: Article

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