Forces shaping the fastest evolving regions in the human genome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1599-1611

  Pollard, Katherine S ^a,c   Salama, Sofie R ^a,b   King, Bryan ^a,b   Kern, Andrew D ^a   Dreszer, Tim ^a   Katzman, Sol ^a,b   Siepel, Adam ^a,d   Pedersen, Jakob S ^a   Bejerano, Gill ^a   Baertsch, Robert ^a   Rosenbloom, Kate R ^a   Kent, Jim ^a   Haussler, David ^a,b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA DETERMINATION; EVOLUTION; FORCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; ISOCHORE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; TELOMERE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BASE PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750428182     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020168     Document Type: Article

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